{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-regulations-1996/schedule-8/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-regulations-1996/schedule-8/paragraph-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/207",
  "legislation_title": "The Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-regulations-1996",
  "path": "schedule/8/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Where a claimant has ceased to occupy what was formerly the dwelling occupied as the home following his estrangement or divorce from or dissolution of a civil partnership with his former partner, that dwelling for a period of 26 weeks from the date on which he ceased to occupy that dwelling or, where that dwelling is occupied as the home by the former partner who is a lone parent, for as long as it is so occupied.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 8 para. 5 inserted (5.12.2005) by The Civil Partnership (Pensions, Social Security and Child Support) (Consequential, etc. Provisions) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/2877), art. 1, Sch. 3 para. 26(13)(b) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 8 para. 5 added (1.4.2003) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/511), regs. 1, 3(3)(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/207/schedule/8/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:53:28.715055+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."
}