{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-independence-payment-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/regulation-18B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-independence-payment-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/regulation-18B.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2016/217",
  "legislation_title": "The Personal Independence Payment Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-independence-payment-regulations-northern-ireland-2016",
  "path": "regulation/18B",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "18B",
  "heading": "Time limits on absences where the claimant is treated as being in Northern Ireland",
  "text": "Where a person is temporarily absent from Northern Ireland in the circumstances specified in regulation 17(1), 18(1) or 18A(1), the total period of an absence where C is treated as present in Northern Ireland will not exceed 26 weeks.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regs. 18A, 18B inserted (19.7.2025) by The Social Security (Habitual Residence, Past Presence and Temporary Absence) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025 (S.R. 2025/136), regs. 1(1), 17"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2016/217/regulation/18B",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:56:25.610413+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."
}