{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-back-to-work-bonus-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-back-to-work-bonus-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-16.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1996/201",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Back to Work Bonus) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-back-to-work-bonus-regulations-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Couples both of whom are entitled to a qualifying benefit",
  "text": "(1) Where—\n(a) one member of a couple is entitled to a contribution-based jobseeker’s allowance, and\n(b) the other member of the couple is entitled to an income-based jobseeker’s allowance or to income support,\nany bonus which accrues in respect of the earnings of the person entitled to a contribution-based jobseeker’s allowance shall accrue to the bonus of the person who within the bonus period was last entitled to an income-based jobseeker’s allowance or to income support.\n(2) Where—\n(a) 2 persons become a couple;\n(b) neither member of the couple has served his waiting period;\n(c) both members of the couple have, at the time they become a couple, a current period of entitlement to a qualifying benefit;\n(d) one member of the couple has fewer days of entitlement to a qualifying benefit (represented by “A”) in that period than the other member (represented by “B”);\n(e) the person entitled to the qualifying benefit after they become a couple is the person with fewer days of entitlement, and\n(f) the qualifying benefit to which he is entitled is not a contribution-based jobseeker’s allowance,\nthen the number of waiting days the person is required to serve in accordance with regulation 6(2) (waiting period) shall be reduced by a number equal to the number by which B exceeds A.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 16 in operation at 7.10.1996, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/1996/319",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Back to Work Bonus) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "nisr/1996/319",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Back to Work Bonus) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "nisr/1996/319",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Back to Work Bonus) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996"
    },
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/1996/201",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Back to Work Bonus) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/201/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-14T03:32:08.685566+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."
}