{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-incapacity-benefit-transitional-regulations-northern-ireland-1995/regulation-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-incapacity-benefit-transitional-regulations-northern-ireland-1995/regulation-21.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1995/35",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Incapacity Benefit) (Transitional) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-incapacity-benefit-transitional-regulations-northern-ireland-1995",
  "path": "regulation/21",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Special provisions for persons entitled to long-term incapacity benefit in respect of an industrial injury",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), a person entitled to a transitional award of long-term incapacity benefit in respect of a personal injury of a kind mentioned in section 94(1) shall cease to be so entitled when the incapacity for work is no longer as a result of that injury.\n(2) Where a person’s entitlement to a transitional award of long-term incapacity benefit ceases as a consequence of paragraph (1) and within the period of 57 days after entitlement to that award ceases he becomes incapable for work as a result of the personal injury in respect of which the transitional award of long-term incapacity benefit was payable, he shall be entitled to benefit at the rate at which the transitional award of long-term incapacity benefit would have been payable had he not ceased to be so entitled; and these regulations shall apply as if the award of incapacity benefit were a transitional award of long-term incapacity benefit.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1995/35/regulation/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:42:57.729297+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."
}