{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-claims-and-information-regulations-northern-ireland-2001/regulation-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-claims-and-information-regulations-northern-ireland-2001/regulation-12.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2001/175",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Claims and Information) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-claims-and-information-regulations-northern-ireland-2001",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Partners of claimants on jobseeker’s allowance",
  "text": "(1) The social security information specified in paragraph (2) may be supplied by a relevant authority to the partner of a claimant for a jobseeker’s allowance where—\n(a) the allowance has been in payment to the claimant, or would have been in payment to him but for Article 21 of the Jobseekers Order (circumstances in which jobseeker’s allowance is not payable), for a period of 6 months or more;\n(b) the allowance remains in payment or would be in payment but for that Article, and\n(c) the partner is being invited to attend the office of the relevant authority for purposes connected with employment or training.\n(2) The information which may be supplied is—\n(a) that jobseeker’s allowance is in payment to the claimant or would be in payment to him but for Article 21 of the Jobseekers Order, and\n(b) that payment has been made to the claimant or would have been so made but for Article 21 of the Jobseekers Order, for a period of at least 6 months.\n(3) In this regulation, “partner” has the same meaning as in the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 (by virtue of regulation 1(2) of those Regulations).",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 12 in operation at 14.5.2001, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1996 No. 198"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2001/175/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:11:41.883549+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."
}