{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-76",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-76.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/76",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "76",
  "heading": "Persons of a prescribed description",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), a person of a prescribed description for the purposes of the definition of “family” in Article 2(2) of the Order (interpretation) is a person aged 16 or over but under 19 who is treated as a child for the purposes of section 138 of the Benefits Act (meaning of “child”), and in these Regulations, except in Part IV such a person is referred to as a “young person”.\n(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to a person who is—\n(a) on a course of advanced education;\n(b) entitled to a jobseeker’s allowance or would, but for Article 5(1)(d) of the Order (provision against dual entitlement), be so entitled, or\n(c) entitled to income support or would, but for section 130(2) of the Benefits Act (exclusion from benefit) be so entitled.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 76 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": "substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2005/319",
      "affecting_title": "The Children (Leaving Care) (2002 Act) (Commencement No. 2 and Consequential Provisions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2005"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "nisr/2003/329",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Students and Income-Related Benefits Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "nisr/2003/1",
      "affecting_title": "The Income-Related Benefits and Jobseeker’s Allowance (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2006/128",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Young Persons) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006"
    },
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2006/128",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Young Persons) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "nisr/2008/286",
      "affecting_title": "The Employment and Support Allowance (Consequential Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2016/236",
      "affecting_title": "The Universal Credit (Consequential, Supplementary, Incidental and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/198/regulation/76",
    "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."
}