{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-social-services-direct-payments-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-social-services-direct-payments-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1997/131",
  "legislation_title": "The Personal Social Services (Direct Payments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-social-services-direct-payments-regulations-northern-ireland-1997",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Maximum period of residential accommodation which may be secured by means of a direct payment",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the power to make a payment under Article 15A(1) of the Order shall not be exercisable in relation to the provision of residential accommodation for any person for a period in excess of four weeks in any period of twelve months.\n(2) In calculating the period of four weeks mentioned in paragraph (1) a period in residential accommodation of less than four weeks shall be added to any succeeding period in residential accommodation where the two periods are separated by a period of less than four weeks but not otherwise.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in operation at 1.4.1997, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/131/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:29:56.254017+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."
}