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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-loss-of-benefit-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/regulation-3",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2016/225",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Loss of Benefit) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-loss-of-benefit-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2016",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 1(2)",
  "text": "In regulation 1(2) (interpretation)—\n(a) before the definition of “the Act” insert—\n““the 2007 Act” means the Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007;”;\n(b) after the definition of “the Benefits Act” insert—\n““the Order” means the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015;”;\n(c) after the definition of “armed forces independence payment” insert—\n““assessment period” has the same meaning as in the UC Regulations;”;\n(d) after the definition of “the determination day” insert—\n““the ESA Regulations” means the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008;”;\n(e) after the definition of “the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations” insert—\n““income-based jobseeker’s allowance” means an income-based allowance under the Jobseekers Order as it has effect apart from the amendments made by Part 1 of Schedule 12 to the Order (to remove references to an income-based allowance);”;\n““income-related employment and support allowance” means an income-related allowance under Part 1 of the 2007 Act as it has effect apart from the amendments made by Schedule 3 and Part 1 of Schedule 12 to the Order (to remove references to an income-related allowance);”;\n(f) after the definition of “the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations” insert—\n““joint claimant” means each of the “joint claimants” in that definition in Article 46 of the Order;”;\n(g) after the definition of “pay day” insert—\n““personal independence payment” means the allowance payable in accordance with Part 5 of the Order;”;\n(h) after the definition of “relevant authority” insert—\n““the UC Regulations” means the Universal Credit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016;”;\n““universal credit” means the benefit payable in accordance with Part 2 of the Order.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2007 c. 2 (N.I.)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Definition inserted by Article 22(2) of S.I. 2013/3021."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Definition inserted by regulation 2(2) of S.R. 2011 No. 291."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.R. 2008 No. 280."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "Definition substituted by paragraph 10(2) of Schedule 2 to S.R. 2006 No. 407."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "Definition inserted by regulation 2(2) of S.R. 2011 No. 291."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "Definition inserted by regulation 2(2) of S.R. 2011 No. 291."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f8",
      "text": "S.R. 2016 No. 216."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2016/225/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:56:19.515295+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."
}