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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefits-up-rating-order-northern-ireland-1996/article-17",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1996/73",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefits-up-rating-order-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "article/17",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Disability working allowance",
  "text": "In the Disability Working Allowance (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992—\n(a) in regulation 15(1)(c) (calculation of income on a weekly basis) for “£40” there shall be substituted “£60”;\n(b) in regulation 51(4) (determination of appropriate maximum disability working allowance) the capital sum prescribed is £3,000;\n(c) in regulation 51(4), (5) and (6) the amount specified for the allowance in respect of a child or young person is nil;\n(d) in regulation 52(1) (applicable amount)—\n(i) in sub-paragraph (a) for “£54·75” there shall be substituted “£56·40”, and\n(ii) in sub-paragraph (b) for “£73·00” there shall be substituted “£75·20”;\n(e) in paragraph 19(b) of Schedule 3 (sums to be disregarded in the calculation of income other than earnings) for “£9·20” there shall be substituted “£9·25”; and\n(f) in Schedule 5 (determination of appropriate maximum disability working allowance) the sums prescribed shall be increased so as to have effect as set out in Schedule 3 to this Order.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 17 in operation at 9.4.1996, see art. 1(1)(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1992 No. 78; relevant amending provisions are S.R. 1993 No. 373, S.R. 1994 Nos. 77 and 274 and S.R. 1995 Nos. 67, 71 and 223"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Sub-paragraph (c) was added by regulation 4(2)(b) of S.R. 1994 No. 274"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Paragraph 19 was substituted by regulation 2(7)(a) of S.R. 1994 No. 77 and amended by Article 17(d) of S.R. 1995 No. 71"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
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      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/1996/73",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order (Northern Ireland) 1996"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "nisr/1997/113",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order (Northern Ireland) 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "nisr/1997/113",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order (Northern Ireland) 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "nisr/1999/50",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order (Northern Ireland) 1999"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/73/article/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:37:27.338611+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."
}