{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-back-to-work-bonus-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-back-to-work-bonus-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-18.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/18",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Trainees",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies to a person who—\n(a) was entitled to a qualifying benefit, and\n(b) ceased to be entitled to a qualifying benefit on taking up training.\n(2) In determining for the purposes of regulation 2 (period of entitlement to a qualifying benefit) whether any 2 or more periods of entitlement to a qualifying benefit link to form a single such period, any period during which he was a person to whom this regulation applies shall be disregarded.\n(3) Where a person takes up employment within 14 days of his ceasing to be a person to whom this regulation applies, any claim for a bonus made by him shall be determined as if regulation 7(2)(b) (requirements for a bonus) was omitted.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 18 in operation at 7.10.1996, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "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/18",
    "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."
}