{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-joint-claims-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2002/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-joint-claims-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2002/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2002/236",
  "legislation_title": "The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Joint Claims) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-joint-claims-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2002",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations",
  "text": "In the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 –\n(a) in regulation 3A(1) (prescribed description of a joint-claim couple for the purposes of Article 3(4)) for “19th March 1976” there shall be substituted “28th October 1957”;\n(b) in regulation 3E(2) (entitlement of a member of a joint-claim couple to a jobseeker’s allowance without a claim being made jointly by the couple) –\n(i) after “joint-claim” there shall be inserted “couple”;\n(ii) at the end of sub-paragraph (j), “or” shall be omitted;\n(iii) after sub-paragraph (k) there shall be added the following sub-paragraph –\n“or\n(l) where the other member was entitled to an income-based jobseeker’s allowance on 27th October 2002, save that this sub-paragraph shall apply only until the day on which he is required to attend at a place specified by an employment officer in a notification given or sent to him.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1996 No. 198; relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 2000 No. 350 and S.R. 2001 No. 120"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Regulation 3A was inserted by regulation 2(2) of S.R. 2000 No. 350 and amended by regulation 2(2) of S.R. 2001 No. 120"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Regulation 3E was inserted by regulation 2(2) of S.R. 2000 No. 350 and amended by regulation 2(2) of S.R. 2001 No. 120"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2002/236/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:07:13.431638+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."
}