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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-attendance-allowance-regulations-northern-ireland-1992/regulation-8",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1992/20",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Attendance Allowance) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992",
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  "path": "regulation/8",
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  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Exemption from regulations 6 and 7",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (3), regulation 6 or, as the case may be, regulation 7 shall not apply to a person in respect of the first 28 days of any period throughout which he is—\n(a) undergoing medical or other treatment in a hospital or similar institution in any of the circumstances mentioned in regulation 6; or\n(b) in accommodation provided in any of the circumstances mentioned in regulation 7.\n(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)—\n(a) 2 or more distinct periods separated by an interval not exceeding 28 days, or by 2 or more such intervals, shall be treated as a continuous period equal in duration to the total of such distinct periods and ending on the last day of the later or last such period;\n(b) any period or periods to which either regulation 6 or regulation 7 refers shall be taken into account and aggregated with any period to which the other of them refers.\n(3) Where, on the day a person's entitlement to an attendance allowance commences, he is in accommodation in the circumstances mentioned in regulation 6 or regulation 7, paragraph (1) shall not apply to him for any period of consecutive days, beginning with that day, on which he remains in that accommodation.",
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      "affecting": "nisr/2007/431",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Attendance Allowance and Disability Living Allowance) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "nisr/1996/289",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security and Child Support (Jobseeker’s Allowance) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996"
    },
    {
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      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Attendance Allowance and Disability Living Allowance) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 (revoked)"
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1992/20/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:58:54.283235+00:00"
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  "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."
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