{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-support-general-jobseekers-allowance-consequential-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-support-general-jobseekers-allowance-consequential-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-5.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/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 4 of the principal Regulations",
  "text": "In regulation 4(2)(c) of the principal Regulations (temporary absence from Northern Ireland)—\n(a) for heads (i) and (ii) there shall be substituted the following heads—\n“(i) the claimant falls within one or more of the prescribed categories of person listed in Schedule 1B other than paragraphs 7, 15, 20, 21, 24, 25, 26 or 27 of that Schedule,\n(ii) the claimant falls within paragraph 7 of Schedule 1B (persons incapable of work) and his absence from Northern Ireland is for the sole purpose of receiving treatment from an appropriately qualified person for the incapacity by reason of which he satisfies the conditions of that paragraph, or”, and\n(b) in head (v) for “paragraph 5 of Schedule 1” there shall be substituted “paragraph 7 of Schedule 1B”.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 in operation at 7.10.1996 with effect in accordance , see reg. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Head (v) was substituted by regulation 2(2) of 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/5",
    "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."
}