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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-support-general-regulations-northern-ireland-1987/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-support-general-regulations-northern-ireland-1987/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1987/459",
  "legislation_title": "The Income Support (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-support-general-regulations-northern-ireland-1987",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Persons not required to be available for employment",
  "text": "(1) A person, other than one to whom regulation 10(1)(h) (circumstances in which claimants are not to be treated as available for employment) applies, to whom any paragraph of Schedule 1 (persons not required to be available for employment) applies in any week shall not be required to be available for employment in that week.\n(2) A person, other than one to whom regulation 10(1)(h) applies, to whom none of the provisions of Schedule 1 other than paragraph 5 applies, shall, where—\n(a) a medical practitioner to whom the question of that person's incapacity for work by reason of some disease or bodily or mental disablement has been referred under regulation 8 of the Social Security (Adjudication) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987 (medical references) is of the opinion that the person is not so incapable;\n(b) that person's medical practitioner continues to supply evidence of his incapacity for work in accordance with regulation 2 of the Social Security (Medical Evidence) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1976 (evidence of incapacity for work and confinement);\n(c) that person has made and is pursuing an appeal against the determination of an adjudication officer that he is not so incapable; and\n(d) that person, were he required to be available for employment, would not be treated as so available under regulation 9(1) (persons treated as available for employment),\nnot be required to be available for employment pending the determination of his appeal.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1987 No. 82, to which there are amendments not relevant to these regulations"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.R. 1976 No. 175; the relevant amending regulations are S.R. 1982 No. 153 and S.R. 1987 No. 117"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "word omitted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2022/230",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Habitual Residence and Past Presence) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022"
    },
    {
      "type": "word added",
      "affecting": "nisr/2022/230",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Habitual Residence and Past Presence) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "nisr/2022/230",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Habitual Residence and Past Presence) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022"
    },
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2003/367",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Back to Work Bonus and Lone Parent Run-on Amendment and Revocation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1987/459/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:18:43.914608+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."
}