{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-back-to-work-bonus-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-25",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-back-to-work-bonus-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-25.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/25",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": "Payment of bonus",
  "text": "A bonus calculated by reference to earnings paid during periods of entitlement to income support and to a jobseeker’s allowance shall be treated as payable—\n(a) wholly by way of a jobseeker’s allowance, where the qualifying benefit last in payment in the bonus period was a jobseeker’s allowance, or\n(b) wholly by way of income support, where the qualifying benefit last in payment in the bonus period was income support.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 25 in operation at 7.10.1996, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "word substituted",
      "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/25",
    "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."
}