{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-11.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1996/356",
  "legislation_title": "The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "regulation/11",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Hardship payments",
  "text": "In regulation 140 of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations (meaning of “person in hardship”)—\n(a) in paragraph (1)(h)(ii) for “whichever is the earlier,” there shall be substituted—\n“whichever is the earlier, or\n(iii) has claimed either attendance allowance or disability living allowance and has an award of either attendance allowance or the care component of disability living allowance at one of the two higher rates prescribed under section 72(4) of the Benefits Act for a period commencing after the date on which that claim was made,”, and\n(b) in paragraph (5)(a) after “Schedule 1” there shall be inserted “or for a disabled child premium specified in paragraph 16 of that Schedule”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/356/regulation/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:34:19.153640+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."
}