{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1985/schedule-5/paragraph-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1985/schedule-5/paragraph-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1985/53",
  "legislation_title": "Social Security Act 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1985",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The following subsection shall be added at the end of section 18 of that Act (duration of unemployment benefit)—\n“(4) Regulations may provide for treating a person for the purposes of this section as having been entitled to unemployment benefit for any day if he would have been entitled to it but for—\n(a) failure to make a claim; or\n(b) failure to make a claim within the prescribed time;\nbut a person is not to be so treated where he shows that he did not intend, by so failing, to avoid the necessity of requalifying for benefit.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/53/schedule/5/paragraph/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:00:00.568833+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."
}