{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/regulation-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/regulation-23.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2016/218",
  "legislation_title": "The Jobseeker's Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-regulations-northern-ireland-2016",
  "path": "regulation/23",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Start of the reduction",
  "text": "A reduction period determined in relation to a sanctionable failure takes effect from—\n(a) where the claimant has not been paid a jobseeker's allowance for the benefit week in which the sanctionable failure occurred, the first day of that benefit week;\n(b) where the claimant has been paid a jobseeker's allowance for the benefit week referred to in paragraph (a), the first day of the first benefit week for which the claimant has not been paid a jobseeker's allowance; or\n(c) where the amount of the award of the jobseeker's allowance for the benefit week referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) is already subject to a reduction because of a previous sanctionable failure, the first day of the first benefit week in respect of which the amount of the award is no longer subject to that reduction.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2016/218/regulation/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:56:25.282578+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."
}