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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-incapacity-benefit-increases-for-dependants-regulations-northern-ireland-1994/regulation-14",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1994/485",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Incapacity Benefit — Increases for Dependants) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-incapacity-benefit-increases-for-dependants-regulations-northern-ireland-1994",
  "path": "regulation/14",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Disqualification for receipt of increases in cases of imprisonment and absence abroad",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), where an adult (other than the spouse of the beneficiary) in respect of whom a beneficiary is entitled to an increase of incapacity benefit under regulation 9(1)(c) or (d) is absent from Northern Ireland, or is undergoing imprisonment or detention in legal custody, the beneficiary shall not be entitled to that increase.\n(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply in the case of an adult who is absent from Northern Ireland and who is resident with the beneficiary in circumstances where the disqualification for receipt of incapacity benefit does not apply in the case of the beneficiary by virtue of regulation 2 of the Social Security Benefit (Persons Abroad) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1978.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2005/536",
      "affecting_title": "The Civil Partnership (Pensions, Social Security and Child Support) (Consequential, etc. Provisions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2005"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1994/485/regulation/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:43:32.063865+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."
}