{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-support-general-regulations-northern-ireland-1987/schedule-1/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-support-general-regulations-northern-ireland-1987/schedule-1/paragraph-4.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": "schedule/1/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Persons caring for another person",
  "text": "A person who is regularly and substantially engaged in caring for another person if—\n(a) the person doing the caring is in receipt of an invalid care allowance under section 37 of the principal Act;\n(b) the person being cared for is in receipt of attendance allowance under section 35 of that Act; or\n(c) the person being cared for has claimed attendance allowance under that section but only for the period up to the date of determination of that claim, or the period of 26 weeks from the date of that claim, whichever date is the earlier.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1975 c. 15; section 37(3) was amended by Article 38(1) of, and Schedule 10 to, the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1986"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1987/459/schedule/1/paragraph/4",
    "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."
}