{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-regulations-northern-ireland-2006/regulation-73A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-regulations-northern-ireland-2006/regulation-73A.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2006/405",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-regulations-northern-ireland-2006",
  "path": "regulation/73A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "73A",
  "heading": "Circumstances in which a benefit cap will apply",
  "text": "Unless regulation 73E or 73F applies, a benefit cap applies where the relevant authority makes a determination that during the reference period the total amount of welfare benefits to which—\n(a) where the claimant is a member of a couple, each member of the couple is or jointly are entitled, or\n(b) in any other case, the claimant is entitled,\nexceeds the relevant amount.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 8A inserted (31.5.2016) by The Benefit Cap (Housing Benefit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/55), regs. 1, 3(5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2006/405/regulation/73A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-12T03:38:14.194536+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}