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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-incapacity-benefit-regulations-northern-ireland-1994/regulation-12",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1994/461",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Incapacity Benefit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1994",
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  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Qualifying date for entitlement to increased rate of incapacity benefit — widows",
  "text": "If, for the purposes of regulation 9, the qualifying date in relation to a person who was entitled to a widow’s allowance would have been earlier than that specified in section 30B(7), if in respect of that earlier date she had claimed short-term incapacity benefit and had satisfied the contribution conditions for that benefit specified in paragraph 2 of Schedule 3 (short-term incapacity benefit), the qualifying date in relation to her shall nevertheless be that earlier date.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Paragraph 2 of Schedule 3 is amended by Articles 3(2) and 5(2) of, and paragraph 38(2) of Schedule 1 to, the Social Security (Incapacity for Work) (Northern Ireland) Order 1994 with effect from 13th April 1995"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1994/461/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:43:46.091673+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."
}