{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-support-general-jobseekers-allowance-consequential-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-24",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-support-general-jobseekers-allowance-consequential-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-24.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1996/199",
  "legislation_title": "The Income Support (General) (Jobseeker’s Allowance Consequential Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-support-general-jobseekers-allowance-consequential-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "regulation/24",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Amendment of Schedule 3 to the principal Regulations",
  "text": "In Schedule 3 to the principal Regulations (housing costs)—\n(a) in paragraph 8(2) (new housing costs) for head (a) there shall be substituted the following head—\n“(a) is a person to whom paragraph 4 or 5 of Schedule 1B (persons caring for another person) applies;”, and\n(b) in paragraph 14 (linking rule)—\n(i) in sub-paragraph (5)(a) after “unemployment benefit,” there shall be inserted “a contribution-based jobseeker’s allowance,”;\n(ii) in sub-paragraph (5A) for “paragraph 4 of Schedule 1 applies (persons with caring responsibilities not required to be available for employment)” there shall be substituted “paragraph 4 or 5 of Schedule 1B (persons caring for another person) applies”, and\n(iii) in sub-paragraph (5B) for head (b) there shall be substituted the following head—\n“(b) is a student, other than one who would qualify for income support under regulation 4ZA(3) (prescribed categories of person);”.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 24 in operation at 7.10.1996 with effect in accordance , see reg. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Schedule 3 was substituted by S.R. 1995 No. 301"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Sub-paragraphs (5A) and (5B) were inserted by regulation 2(3)(h) of S.R. 1995 No. 434"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/1996/199",
      "affecting_title": "The Income Support (General) (Jobseeker’s Allowance Consequential Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996"
    },
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/1996/199",
      "affecting_title": "The Income Support (General) (Jobseeker’s Allowance Consequential Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "nisr/2016/44",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Housing Costs Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/199/regulation/24",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:36:00.440915+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."
}