{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-contributions-and-benefits-northern-ireland-act-1992/section-93",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1992/7",
  "legislation_title": "Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-contributions-and-benefits-northern-ireland-act-1992",
  "path": "section/93",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "93",
  "heading": "Dependency increases on termination of employment after period of entitlement to disability working allowance.",
  "text": "Where—\n(a) a person becomes entitled—\n(i) to the higher rate of short-term incapacity benefit, or to long-term incapacity benefit, by virtue of section 30C(5) or (6) or section 42 above;. . .\n(ii) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(b) when he was last entitled to that benefit. . ., it was increased in respect of a dependant by virtue of—\n(i) regulation 8(6) of the Social Security Benefit (Dependency) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1977;\n(ii) regulation 3 of the Social Security Benefit (Dependency) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1984;\n(iii) regulation 2 of the Social Security (Savings for Existing Beneficiaries) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1984; or\n(iv) regulation 4 of the Social Security Benefit (Dependency and Computation of Earnings) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1989,\nfor the purpose of determining whether his benefit. . . should be increased by virtue of that regulation for any period beginning with the day on which he again becomes entitled to his benefit. . ., the increase in respect of that dependant shall be treated as having been payable to him on each day between the last day on which his benefit. . . was previously payable and the day on which he again becomes entitled to it.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 93(a) substituted (13.4.1995) by S.I. 1994/1898 (N.I. 12), art. 13(1), Sch. 1 Pt. I para. 28(a) (with art. 15(1)); S.R. 1994/450, art. 2, Sch. Pt. IV"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 93(a)(ii) and word “or”preceding it repealed (3.11.2000 for specified purposes and 6.4.2001 otherwise) by S.I. 1999/3147 (N.I. 11), art. 76, Sch. 10 Pt. IV; S.R. 2000/332, art. 2(3)(g)(4)(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 93 substituted (13.4.1995) by S.I. 1994/1898 (N.I. 12), art. 13(1), Sch. 1 Pt. I para. 28(b) (with art. 15(1)); S.R. 1994/450, art. 2, Sch. Pt. IV"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.R. (N.I.) 1977 No. 74."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "S.R. (N.I.) 1984 No. 373."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "S.R. (N.I.) 1984 No. 381."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M4",
      "text": "S.R. (N.I.) 1989 No. 381."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "nia/2007/2",
      "affecting_title": "Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1992/7/section/93",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:36:23.179265+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."
}