{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-habitual-residence-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2013/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-habitual-residence-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2013/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2013/308",
  "legislation_title": "The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Habitual Residence) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-habitual-residence-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2013",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations",
  "text": "In regulation 85A of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 (special cases: supplemental – persons from abroad) for paragraph (2) substitute—\n“(2) No claimant shall be treated as habitually resident in the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man or the Republic of Ireland unless—\n(a) the claimant has been living in any of those places for the past three months; and\n(b) the claimant has a right to reside in any of those places, other than a right to reside which falls within paragraph (3).”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1996 No. 198; Regulation 85A was inserted by regulation 4(3) of S.R. 2006 No. 178 to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2013/308/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:08:38.992491+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."
}