{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-bereavement-benefits-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2000/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-bereavement-benefits-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2000/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2000/260",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Bereavement Benefits Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-bereavement-benefits-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2000",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations",
  "text": "(1) The Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).\n(2) In Schedule 1 (applicable amounts)—\n(a) in paragraph 5 (premiums) for “paragraphs 10 to 17” there shall be substituted “paragraphs 9A to 17”;\n(b) immediately before paragraph 10 there shall be inserted the following paragraph—\n“Bereavement Premium\n9A (1) Subject to sub-paragraphs (2) and (3), the condition is that the claimant—\n(a) had, as at 9th April 2001, attained the age of 55 but not the age of 60;\n(b) was in receipt of, but is no longer entitled to, a bereavement allowance under section 39B of the Benefits Act in respect of the death of a spouse who died on or after 9th April 2001, and\n(c) is claiming a jobseeker’s allowance as a single claimant.\n(2) A premium under sub-paragraph (1) shall not be applicable in respect of a claimant who claims a jobseeker’s allowance more than 8 weeks after the last day on which he was entitled to a bereavement allowance.\n(3) Where a claimant to whom a premium under sub-paragraph (1) is applicable, ceases to be entitled to an income-based jobseeker’s allowance or to be a single claimant, a premium under sub-paragraph (1) shall only again be applicable to that claimant where he claims a jobseeker’s allowance as a single claimant no more than 8 weeks after the date on which he ceased to be entitled to an income-based jobseeker’s allowance or to income support or, as the case may be, to be a single claimant.”;\n(c) immediately before sub-paragraph (2) in the table in paragraph 20 (weekly amounts of premiums specified in Part III) there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph respectively in each column—\n“\n(1A) Bereavement Premium.\n(1A) £15·30.\n”.\n(3) In Schedule 6 (sums to be disregarded in the calculation of income other than earnings) after paragraph 17(f) there shall be added the following sub-paragraphs—\n“(g) any widowed mother’s allowance paid pursuant to section 37 of the Benefits Act;\n(h) any widowed parent’s allowance paid pursuant to section 39A of the Benefits Act.”.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3(1)(2) in operation at 9.4.2001, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Reg. 3(3) in operation at 9.4.2001 with effect in accordance with reg. 1(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Paragraph 5 was amended by regulation 9(4)(b)(i) of S.R. 1996 No. 288"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/2000/260",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Bereavement Benefits Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/2000/260",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Bereavement Benefits Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "nisr/2008/498",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments No. 7) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "nisr/2007/396",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments No. 5) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2000/260/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:14:44.526941+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."
}