{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-support-general-jobseekers-allowance-consequential-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-support-general-jobseekers-allowance-consequential-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-4.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/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Insertion of regulation 4ZA in the principal Regulations",
  "text": "In Part II of the principal Regulations (conditions of entitlement) there shall be inserted at the beginning the following regulation—\n“Prescribed categories of person\n4ZA (1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), a person to whom any paragraph of Schedule 1B applies falls within a prescribed category of person for the purposes of section 123(1)(e) of the Contributions and Benefits Act (entitlement to income support).\n(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply to a student during the period of study.\n(3) A student during the period of study falls within a prescribed category of person for the purposes of section 123(1)(e) of the Contributions and Benefits Act only if—\n(a) regulation 70(3)(a) applies to him;\n(b) paragraph 1, 2, 10, 11, 12 or 18 of Schedule 1B applies to him; or\n(c) any other paragraph of Schedule 1B applies to him and he has a partner who is also a student, and either he or his partner is treated as responsible for a child or young person, but this provision shall apply only for the period of the summer vacation appropriate to his course.”.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in operation at 7.10.1996 with effect in accordance , see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "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/4",
    "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."
}