{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-northern-ireland-order-1995/article-36",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-northern-ireland-order-1995/article-36.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1995/2705",
  "legislation_title": "The Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-northern-ireland-order-1995",
  "path": "article/36",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "36",
  "heading": "Regulations and orders",
  "text": "(1) Where any power under this Order to make regulations or orders is expressed to be exercisable for alternative purposes it may be exercised in relation to the same case for any or all of those purposes.\n(2) Any such power includes power—\n(a) to make such incidental, supplemental, consequential or transitional provision as appears to the Department or Secretary of State or (in the case of regulations made by the Treasury) to the Treasury, to be expedient; and\n(b) to provide for a person to exercise a discretion in dealing with any matter.\n(2A) The Statutory Rules (Northern Ireland) Order 1979 shall not apply to any order under Article 2(2) in relation to employment officers.\n(3) Any power to make regulations or an order for the purposes of any provision of this Order is without prejudice to any power to make regulations or an order for the purposes of any other provision.\n(4) Without prejudice to the generality of the provisions of this Article—\n(a) regulations under Article 19A may make different provision for different areas;\n(b) regulations under Article 19A may make provision which applies only in relation to an area or areas specified in the regulations.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "SI 1999/671"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Art. 36(2A) inserted (27.9.2017) by The Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/2006), art. 2(2), Sch. 7 para. 9; S.R. 2017/190, art. 3(1)(2)(h)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Art. 36(2A) repealed (27.9.2017 for specified purposes and subsequently on the days on which and for the purposes for which \"the amending provisions\" are brought into force by secondary legislation) by The Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/2006), art. 2(2), Sch. 12 Pt. 4; S.R. 2017/190, art. 9 (with arts. 10-25)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Art. 36(4) added (13.8.2010) by Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2010 (c. 13), ss. 1(3), 36(1)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Art. 36(4) repealed (27.9.2017 for specified purposes and subsequently on the days on which and for the purposes for which \"the amending provisions\" are brought into force by secondary legislation) by The Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/2006), art. 2(2), Sch. 12 Pt. 4; S.R. 2017/190, art. 9 (with arts. 10-25)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "nia/2010/13",
      "affecting_title": "Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2010"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1995/2705/article/36",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:43:30.643469+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."
}