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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-support-general-regulations-northern-ireland-1987/regulation-31",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1987/459",
  "legislation_title": "The Income Support (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987",
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  "path": "regulation/31",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": "Date on which income is treated as paid",
  "text": "(1) Except where paragraph (2) applies, a payment of income to which regulation 29 (calculation of earnings derived from employed earner's employment and income other than earnings) applies shall be treated as paid—\n(a) in the case of a payment which is due to be paid before the first benefit week pursuant to the claim, on the date on which it is due to be paid;\n(b) in any other case, on the first day of the benefit week in which it is due to be paid or the first succeeding benefit week in which it is practicable to take it into account.\n(2) Income support, unemployment benefit, sickness or invalidity benefit, or severe disablement allowance under the principal Act shall be treated as paid on the day of the benefit week in respect of which it is paid.",
  "extent": null,
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  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See sections 12(1)(a) to (c), 14 to 16 and 36; section 12(1)(a) and (b) was amended by the Schedule to the Social Security (No. 2) (Northern Ireland) Order 1980 (S.I. 1980/1087 (N.I. 13)) and paragraph 1(a) of Schedule 3 to the Health and Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1984 (S.I. 1984/1158 (N.I. 8)); section 14 was amended by Article 20(1) of, and paragraph 21 of Schedule 5 to, the Social Security Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1975 (S.I. 1975/1503 (N.I. 15)), paragraph 5 of Schedule 3 to the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1979 (S.I. 1979/396 (N.I. 5)), the Schedule to the Social Security (No. 2) (Northern Ireland) Order 1980, Article 32(3) of, and paragraph 5 of Schedule 4 to, the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1982 (S.I. 1982/1084 (N.I. 16)) and paragraph 53 of Schedule 9 to the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 (S.I. 1986/1888 (N.I. 18)); section 15 was amended by paragraph 22 of Schedule 5 to the Social Security Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1975, paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to, and paragraph 6 of Schedule 3 to, the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1979, paragraph 6 of Schedule 4 to the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1982 and paragraph 53 of Schedule 9 to the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1986; section 15A was inserted by Article 18(3) of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1985 (S.I. 1985/1209 (N.I. 16)); section 16 was amended by paragraph 10 of Schedule 1 to the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1979 and Article 11 (1) of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1985 and modified for certain purposes by Article 6 of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1986; section 36 was substituted by Article 5(1) of the Health and Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1984 and amended by paragraph 2 of Schedule 4 to the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1985"
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