{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-incapacity-benefit-regulations-1994/regulation-5A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-incapacity-benefit-regulations-1994/regulation-5A.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/2946",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Incapacity Benefit) Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-incapacity-benefit-regulations-1994",
  "path": "regulation/5A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5A",
  "heading": "Calculating periods of incapacity for work for welfare to work beneficiaries",
  "text": "For the purposes of incapacity benefit, in the case of a person who has been determined in accordance with regulation 13A of the Social Security (Incapacity for Work) (General) Regulations 1995 as a welfare to work beneficiary, section 30C(1)(c) of the Contributions and Benefits Act (any two periods of incapacity for work not separated by a period of more than 8 weeks shall be treated as one period of incapacity for work) shall have effect as if for the reference to 8 weeks there were substituted a reference to 104 weeks.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 5A inserted (5.10.1998) by The Social Security (Welfare to Work) Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/2231), regs. 1, 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 5A substituted (9.10.2006) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/2378), regs. 1(7), 10(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/2946/regulation/5A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:22:58.770243+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."
}