{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-transitional-provisions-no-2-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-transitional-provisions-no-2-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-18.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1996/518",
  "legislation_title": "The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Transitional Provisions) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-transitional-provisions-no-2-regulations-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "regulation/18",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Questions not immediately ascertainable",
  "text": "(1) During the transitionally protected period, where on consideration of a claim or question relating to a jobseeker’s allowance it appears to an adjudication officer that the claimant’s entitlement to, or the rate or amount of, that benefit depends on the determination of—\n(a) a question as to the amount of housing costs to be included in the claimant’s applicable amount, and the adjudication officer is satisfied that not all the housing costs can be immediately ascertained, he shall proceed to determine the claim or question on the assumption that the housing costs to be included in the claimant’s applicable amount are those which are immediately ascertainable;\n(b) a question as to whether the conditions specified in Article 3(2) of the Order other than sub-paragraph (d)(i), or a question as to whether the conditions specified in Article 4 of the Order, other than those specified in Article 4(1)(c) or (d) of the Order, are satisfied, and the adjudication officer is satisfied that the answer to one of those questions cannot be immediately ascertained, he shall proceed to determine the claim on the assumption that the answers to either question are those which are immediately ascertainable;\n(c) any of the questions mentioned in paragraph (2), and he is satisfied that the questions cannot be immediately determined, he shall proceed to determine the claim or question on the assumption that the determination of that question will be adverse to the claimant.\n(2) The questions referred to in paragraph (1)(c) are—\n(a) whether Article 21 of the Order (circumstances in which a jobseeker’s allowance is not payable) applies for any period;\n(b) whether in relation to any claimant the applicable amount includes an amount by way of a severe disability premium by virtue of regulation 17(1)(d) or 18(1)(e) of, and paragraph 13 of Schedule 2 to, the Income Support Regulations (applicable amounts).\n(3) A determination relating to a jobseeker’s allowance made in accordance with paragraphs (1) and (2) shall be reviewed where it is necessary to give effect to any determination on a question to which those provisions apply.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 18 in operation at 16.12.1996, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Paragraph 13 of Schedule 2 was amended by S.R. 1988 No. 146, S.R. 1989 No. 395, S.R. 1992 No. 6, S.R. 1993 No. 218 and S.R. 1994 Nos. 327 and 474"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/1996/518",
      "affecting_title": "The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Transitional Provisions) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/518/regulation/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:32:36.594199+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."
}