{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-related-benefits-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-related-benefits-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1996/92",
  "legislation_title": "The Income-Related Benefits (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-related-benefits-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of capital disregard provisions",
  "text": "(1) The following provisions shall be amended in accordance with paragraph (2)—\n(a) Schedule 10 to the Income Support Regulations;\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(c) Schedule 3 to the Family Credit (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987, and\n(d) Schedule 4 to the Disability Working Allowance (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992.\n(2) For paragraph 3 of each of the provisions specified in paragraph (1) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—\n“3 Any sum directly attributable to the proceeds of sale of—\n(a) any premises formerly occupied by the claimant as his home, or\n(b) any premises which the claimant continues to occupy as his home and which were occupied by him as his home immediately before the compulsory acquisition of those premises from him under any statutory provision,\nwhich is to be used for the purchase of other premises or land intended for such occupation within 26 weeks of the date of sale or such longer period as is reasonable in the circumstances to enable the claimant to complete the purchase.”.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 2(1)(b) revoked (20.11.2006) by The Housing Benefit (Consequential Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 (S.R. 2006/407), reg. 1(1), Sch. 1 (with regs. 2, 6(2), Sch. 3, Sch. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2(1)(a)(b)(2) comes into operation in accordance with reg. 1(1)(a)(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Reg. 2(1)(c)(d)(2) comes into operation in accordance with reg. 1(1)(b)(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1987 No. 463; paragraph 3 was substituted by regulation 15(a) of S.R. 1988 No. 131"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.R. 1992 No. 78"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/92/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:37:14.260711+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."
}