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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-69",
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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/69",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "69",
  "heading": "Prescribed period for purposes of Article 21(2) of the Order",
  "text": "The prescribed period for the purposes of Article 21(2) of the Order (circumstances in which a jobseeker’s allowance is not payable) shall begin on and include the first day of the week following the date on which a jobseeker’s allowance is determined not to be payable to the claimant and shall be—\n(a) 4 weeks, in any case in which—\n(i) a jobseeker’s allowance is determined not to be payable to the claimant in circumstances falling within Article 21(5) of the Order;\n(ii) on a previous occasion the jobseeker’s allowance was determined not to be payable to him in circumstances falling within Article 21(5) of the Order, and\n(iii) the first date on which the jobseeker’s allowance was not payable to him on that previous occasion falls within the period of 12 months preceding the date of the determination mentioned in sub-paragraph (i);\n(b) 2 weeks, in any other case.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 69 in operation at 7.10.1996, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
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      "affecting_title": "The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Joint Claims) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000"
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      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2019/201",
      "affecting_title": "The Jobseeker's Allowance and Universal Credit (Higher-Level Sanctions) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019"
    },
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      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2019/201",
      "affecting_title": "The Jobseeker's Allowance and Universal Credit (Higher-Level Sanctions) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019"
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    {
      "type": "words omitted",
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      "affecting": "nisr/2009/141",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Steps to Work) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009"
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      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Amendment) (New Deal) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997"
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    },
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      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Students and Income-Related Benefits Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003"
    },
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      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2009/141",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Steps to Work) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009"
    },
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      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Steps to Work) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009"
    },
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    },
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    },
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      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Steps to Work) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted for reg. 69",
      "affecting": "nisr/2016/241",
      "affecting_title": "The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Sanctions) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016"
    },
    {
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      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017"
    },
    {
      "type": "word inserted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2017/116",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017"
    },
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/198/regulation/69",
    "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."
}