{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-industrial-injuries-and-diseases-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-1996/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-industrial-injuries-and-diseases-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-1996/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/425",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Industrial Injuries and Diseases) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-industrial-injuries-and-diseases-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Social Security (General Benefit) Regulations 1982",
  "text": "In regulation 2 of the Social Security (General Benefit) Regulations 1982 (exceptions from disqualification for imprisonment etc.) —\n(a) in paragraph (2) for the words “reduced earnings allowance” there shall be substituted the words “reduced earnings allowance, retirement allowance”;\n(b) for paragraph (6) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—\n“(6) Subject to paragraph (7), the said provisions shall not operate to disqualify a person for receiving disablement benefit, other than any increase of that benefit, for any period during which he is undergoing imprisonment or detention in legal custody.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1982/1408."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Regulation 2 has been amended by S.I. 1983/186, 1984/1303, 1986/1561, 1991/2742 and 1995/829."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/425/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:51:43.326069+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."
}