{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-support-general-jobseekers-allowance-consequential-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-27",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-support-general-jobseekers-allowance-consequential-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-27.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/27",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Transitional provisions",
  "text": "(1) Where on 6th October 1996 or at any time during the 8 weeks immediately preceding that date paragraph 4(1) of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations (persons caring for another person) as in operation on that date applied to a claimant, or would have applied to him if he had made a claim for income support, the claimant shall be treated for the purposes of paragraphs 5 and 6 of Schedule 1B to the principal Regulations as if, throughout the period that paragraph 4(1) of Schedule 1 applied or would have applied to him, paragraph 4 of Schedule 1B had applied or would have applied to him.\n(2) Where on 6th October 1996 paragraph 5 of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations (persons incapable of work) as in operation on that date applied to a claimant, the claimant shall be treated for the purposes of regulation 4(2)(c)(v) of, and paragraph 10 of Schedule 1B to, the principal Regulations as if, throughout the period that paragraph 5 of Schedule 1 applied to him, paragraph 7 of Schedule 1B had applied to him.\n(3) Where—\n(a) a determination of the amount of a person’s benefit has been made in a case to which regulation 4(5) of the Disability Working Allowance and Income Support (General) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995 as originally made had effect (amendments consequential on the coming into operation of the Social Security (Incapacity for Work) (Northern Ireland) Order 1994: transitional provisions with respect to Income Support); and\n(b) an appeal to which regulations 8(2A) or 11(2A) of the principal Regulations as in operation on 2nd October 1995 referred (persons not required to be available or registered for employment), has still to be determined,\nregulation 22A(1) of the principal Regulations (reduction in applicable amount where the claimant is appealing against a decision that he is not incapable of work) shall not apply to that person.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 27 in operation at 7.10.1996 with effect in accordance , see reg. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Paragraph 4 was substituted by S.R. 1991 No. 338 and amended by S.R. 1992 No. 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Paragraph 5 was substituted by S.R. 1995 No. 67"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.R. 1995 No. 67; relevant amending regulations are S.R. 1995 No. 367"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Paragraph (2A) was inserted by S.R. 1995 No. 67"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "Paragraph (2A) was inserted by S.R. 1995 No. 67"
    }
  ],
  "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"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/199/regulation/27",
    "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."
}