{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-back-to-work-bonus-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-back-to-work-bonus-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1996/319",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Back to Work Bonus) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-back-to-work-bonus-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Connecting period",
  "text": "Regulation 4 of the Back to Work Bonus Regulations (connecting period) shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).\n(2) In paragraph (1)—\n(a) in sub-paragraph (a) for “a person ceases to be entitled to a qualifying benefit because” there shall be substituted “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 “a person ceases to be entitled to a qualifying benefit because” there shall be substituted “within 12 weeks of a person ceasing to be entitled to a qualifying benefit”, and\n(d) after sub-paragraph (e) there shall be added the following sub-paragraph—\n“(f) a person who is treated under regulation 3(4) as having established a period of entitlement to a qualifying benefit under paragraph (5) of that regulation satisfies sub-paragraphs (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e) within 12 weeks of the date which applies in his case in accordance with regulation 3(6), and lasts throughout the period the person satisfies sub-paragraphs (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e).”.\n(3) In paragraph (3) after “(1)(d)” there shall be inserted “or (e)”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/319/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:34:47.701702+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."
}