{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-169",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-169.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1996/198",
  "legislation_title": "The Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-regulations-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "regulation/169",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "169",
  "heading": "Trade disputes: exemptions from Article 17 of the Order",
  "text": "Article 17(2) of the Order (trade disputes: effect on other claimants) shall not apply to a claimant during any period where—\n(a) a member of the claimant’s family is, or would be, prevented by Article 16 of the Order from being entitled to a jobseeker’s allowance, and\n(b) that member is—\n(i) a child or young person, or\n(ii) incapable of work or within the maternity period, and for this purpose “the maternity period” means the period commencing at the beginning of the 6th week before the expected week of confinement and ending at the end of the 7th week after the week in which confinement takes place.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 169 in operation at 7.10.1996, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/1996/198",
      "affecting_title": "The Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "nisr/2003/329",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Students and Income-Related Benefits Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "word omitted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2008/286",
      "affecting_title": "The Employment and Support Allowance (Consequential Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "nisr/2008/286",
      "affecting_title": "The Employment and Support Allowance (Consequential Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/198/regulation/169",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:36:06.555307+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."
}