{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-joint-claims-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2008/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2008/16",
  "legislation_title": "The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Joint Claims) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-joint-claims-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2008",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations",
  "text": "(1) The Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (4).\n(2) In regulation 3A(1) (prescribed description of a joint-claim couple for the purposes of Article 3(4)) for “1957” substitute “1947”.\n(3) In regulation 3E(2)(l) (entitlement of a member of a joint-claim couple to a jobseeker’s allowance without a claim being made jointly by the couple) for “27th October 2002” substitute “24th February 2008”.\n(4) Omit regulation 3F (transitional case couples: prescribed circumstances and period for the purposes of paragraph 8A(2) of Schedule 1 to the Order).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1996 No. 198; the relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 2000 No. 350, S.R. 2001 No. 120 and S.R. 2002 No. 236"
    },
    {
      "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 and regulation 2(a) of S.R. 2002 No. 236"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Regulation 3E(2)(1) was inserted by regulation 2(b)(iii) of S.R. 2002 No. 236"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Regulation 3F was inserted by regulation 2(2) of S.R. 2000 No. 350"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2008/16/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:38:13.623293+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."
}