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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-back-to-work-bonus-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1996/201",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Back to Work Bonus) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996",
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  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Period of entitlement to a qualifying benefit",
  "text": "(1) A period of entitlement to a qualifying benefit comprises only days on which a person is entitled to, or treated as entitled to a qualifying benefit.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (4), any 2 or more periods of entitlement to a qualifying benefit separated by an intervening period specified in paragraph (3) shall link together to form a single period of entitlement to a qualifying benefit.\n(3) The intervening periods specified in this paragraph are—\n(a) any connecting period for the purposes of regulation 4;\n(b) any period of not more than 12 weeks falling between—\n(i) 2 periods of entitlement to a qualifying benefit;\n(ii) 2 connecting periods;\n(iii) a connecting period and a period of entitlement to a qualifying benefit.\n(4) A period of entitlement to a qualifying benefit which would but for this paragraph have continued, shall end—\n(a) where the applicant satisfies the work condition and claims a bonus, on the last day of entitlement to a qualifying benefit which precedes the day on which he first satisfies those requirements;\n(b) where the person dies, on the date of his death.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/1996/319",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Back to Work Bonus) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "nisr/1996/319",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Back to Work Bonus) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "nisr/1996/319",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Back to Work Bonus) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/201/regulation/2",
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  },
  "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."
}