{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-back-to-work-bonus-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-back-to-work-bonus-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-6.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/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Waiting period",
  "text": "(1) A person shall not be entitled to a bonus unless he has served or is treated as having served a waiting period.\n(2) A waiting period is the period comprising the first 91 days in a period of entitlement to a qualifying benefit in which the claim for the bonus is made or which precedes a claim made in accordance with regulation 23(1)(b) (claiming a bonus).",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 6 in operation at 7.10.1996, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "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/6",
    "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."
}