{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefits-up-rating-order-northern-ireland-2026/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefits-up-rating-order-northern-ireland-2026/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2026/59",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order (Northern Ireland) 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefits-up-rating-order-northern-ireland-2026",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Rates or amounts of certain benefits under the Contributions and Benefits Act",
  "text": "(1) From and including the respective dates specified in Article 7, the sums specified in paragraph (2) shall be increased so that Schedule 4 to the Contributions and Benefits Act (rates of benefits, etc.), except paragraph 5 of Part III of that Schedule (guardian’s allowance), has effect as set out in Schedule 1 to this Order.\n(2) The sums mentioned in paragraph (1) are the sums specified in Parts I, III, IV and V of Schedule 4 to the Contributions and Benefits Act except, in—\n(a) Part III, the sum specified for age addition to a pension of any category, and otherwise under section 79 of that Act; and\n(b) Part V, the sums specified for the increase in disablement pension for dependent children and death benefit allowance in respect of children and qualifying young persons.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 3 in operation at 1.4.2026 for specified purposes, see art. 1(1)(b)(i)(2)(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Art. 3 in operation at 6.4.2026 in so far as not already in force, see art. 1(1)(b)(ii)(2)(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Part V was amended by paragraph 41 of Schedule 1 to the Child Benefit Act 2005 (c. 6) and Article 71 of the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/2006 (N.I. 1))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2026/59/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:23:56.777675+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."
}