{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-incapacity-benefit-and-jobseekers-allowance-amendment-regulations-1999/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/2226",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Incapacity Benefit and Jobseeker’s Allowance) Amendment Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-incapacity-benefit-and-jobseekers-allowance-amendment-regulations-1999",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations further amend–\n(1) the Social Security (Incapacity Benefit) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/2946) so that a day in respect of which a person makes a claim for incapacity benefit is not to be treated as a day of incapacity unless the claim is accompanied by the claimant's, or his dependant's, national insurance number (regulation 2); and\n(2) the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/207) so that days in respect of which a claimant is not entitled to a jobseeker’s allowance because he has not provided his or his dependant’s national insurance number, shall not be, or be part of, a jobseeking period (regulation 3).\nThese Regulations do not impose a charge on business.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2226/note",
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  "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."
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