{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-incapacity-benefittransitional-regulations-1995/regulation-17A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-incapacity-benefittransitional-regulations-1995/regulation-17A.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/310",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Incapacity Benefit)(Transitional) Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-incapacity-benefittransitional-regulations-1995",
  "path": "regulation/17A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17A",
  "heading": "Awards of incapacity benefit in cases where periods of interruption of employment and periods of incapacity for work link",
  "text": "Where a person had been entitled to invalidity benefit in a period of interruption of employment occurring in whole or in part in a period not exceeding 57 days immediately before the appointed day and becomes entitled to an award of incapacity benefit on the basis that a day of incapacity for work on or after the appointed day forms part of a period of incapacity for work beginning before the appointed day, that award shall have effect as if it were an award of long-term incapacity benefit.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 17A inserted (3.4.1995) by The Social Security (Incapacity for Work) Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/987), regs. 1(2), 3(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/310/regulation/17A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:16:52.277787+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."
}