{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-back-to-work-bonus-no2-regulations-1996/regulation-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-back-to-work-bonus-no2-regulations-1996/regulation-9.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2570",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Back to Work Bonus) (No.2) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-back-to-work-bonus-no2-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Secretary of State to issue estimates",
  "text": "(1) Where it appears to the Secretary of State that a person who is in receipt of a qualifying benefit, or the partner of such a person, has served, or is treated as having served, the waiting period and that, were the conditions of regulation 7 also to be satisfied, a bonus may be payable to that person, he shall, within a year of the waiting period having been served, provide the person claiming the qualifying benefit with a written statement of the amount he estimates may be payable by way of a bonus in his particular case, and shall provide further such statements at intervals of not more than one year as appears to him to be appropriate in the circumstances of the case.\n(2) The issue by the Secretary of State of a statement under paragraph (1) shall not be binding ... when he makes his determination on a claim for a bonus as to—\n(a) whether the applicant satisfies the conditions of entitlement to the bonus; and\n(b) the amount, if any, payable where a bonus is awarded.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulations revoked (25.10.2004) by The Social Security (Back to Work Bonus and Lone Parent Run-on) (Amendment and Revocation) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/1589), regs. 1(1), 8 (with reg. 10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 9(2) revoked (18.10.1999 for specified circumstances, 29.11.1999 for further specified circumstances) by The Social Security Act 1998 (Commencement No. 11, and Savings and Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/2860), (S.I. 1999/3178), reg. 1, Sch. 14 para. 3; S.I. 1999/3178, art. 3(15), sch. 15 para. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2570/regulation/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:34:13.966551+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."
}