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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-30",
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  "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/30",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "30",
  "heading": "Circumstances in which a claimant is to be regarded as having good cause for failing to comply with a notice under regulation 23",
  "text": "For the purposes of regulation 27 (where entitlement is not to cease), a claimant is to be regarded as having good cause for failing to comply with a notice under regulation 23 (attendance)—\n(a) where, if regulation 5(1) (exceptions to requirement to be available immediately) applies in his case, he was required to attend at a time less than 48 hours from receipt by him of the notice;\n(b) where, if regulation 5(2) applies in his case, he was required to attend at a time less than 24 hours from receipt by him of the notice;\n(c) where he was, in accordance with regulation 14(1)(a) to (g), (k) to (m) or (2), treated as available for employment on the day on which he failed to attend;\n(d) where the day on which he failed to attend falls in a week in which he was, in accordance with regulation 19(1)(o) and (2), treated as actively seeking employment.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 30 in operation at 7.10.1996, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
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      "affecting": "nisr/1996/198",
      "affecting_title": "The Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2000/350",
      "affecting_title": "The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Joint Claims) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2012/44",
      "affecting_title": "The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Sanctions for Failure to Attend) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012"
    },
    {
      "type": "word substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2000/255",
      "affecting_title": "The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Amendment No. 4) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "word substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/1999/107",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "nisr/2003/329",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Students and Income-Related Benefits Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2006/234",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Income Support and Jobseeker’s Allowance) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2006/234",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Income Support and Jobseeker’s Allowance) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2008/478",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Lone Parents and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2008/478",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Lone Parents and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2012/284",
      "affecting_title": "The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Members of the Reserve Forces) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/198/regulation/30",
    "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."
}