# The Jobseeker's Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016, Regulation 21: Medium-level sanctions

Extent: N.I.

(1) The reduction for a medium-level sanction in the circumstances described in the first column of the following table is the period set out in the second column.
Circumstances in which reduction period applies
Reduction period
Where there has been no previous relevant failure by the claimant
28 days
Where there have been one or more previous relevant failures by the claimant and the date of the most recent previous relevant failure is not within 365 days beginning with the date of the current sanctionable failure
28 days
Where there have been one or more previous relevant failures by the claimant and the date of the most recent previous relevant failure is within 365 days, but not within 14 days, beginning with the date of the current sanctionable failure and the reduction period applicable to the most recent previous relevant failure is—
(a) 28 days
91 days
(b) 91 days
91 days
Where there have been one or more previous relevant failures by the claimant and the date of the most recent previous relevant failure is within 14 days beginning with the date of the current sanctionable failure and the reduction period applicable to the most recent previous relevant failure is—
(a) 28 days
28 days
(b) 91 days
91 days.
(2) In this regulation “relevant failure” means—
(a) a sanctionable failure giving rise to a medium-level sanction, or
(b) a UC sanctionable failure giving rise to a sanction under Article 32 of the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 to which regulation 100 of the Universal Credit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 applies.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2016/218/regulation/21 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/regulation-21
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