{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-back-to-work-bonus-amendment-regulations-1996/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-back-to-work-bonus-amendment-regulations-1996/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1511",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Back to Work Bonus) (Amendment) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-back-to-work-bonus-amendment-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Connecting period",
  "text": "(1) Regulation 4 of the Back to Work Bonus Regulations (connecting period) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.\n(2) In paragraph (1)—\n(a) in sub-paragraph (a) for the words “a person ceases to be entitled to a qualifying benefit because” there shall be substituted the words “within 12 weeks of a person ceasing to be entitled to a qualifying benefit”;\n(b) sub-paragraph (b) shall be omitted;\n(c) in sub-paragraph (c) for the words “a person ceases to be entitled to a qualifying benefit because” there shall be substituted the words “within 12 weeks of a person ceasing to be entitled to a qualifying benefit”;\n(d) after sub-paragraph (e) there shall be added the following sub-paragraph—\n“(f) a person who is treated under paragraph (4) of regulation 3 as having established a period of entitlement to a qualifying benefit under paragraph (5) of the same regulation satisfies the preceding sub-paragraphs of this paragraph within 12 weeks of the date which applies in his case in accordance with paragraph (6) of regulation 3, and lasts throughout the period the person satisfies the preceding sub-paragraphs of this paragraph.”.\n(3) In paragraph (3) after the words “(1)(d)” there shall be inserted the words\n“or (e)”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1511/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:42:04.107708+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."
}