{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-mariners-benefits-regulations-1975/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-mariners-benefits-regulations-1975/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1975/529",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Mariners' Benefits) Regulations 1975",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-mariners-benefits-regulations-1975",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Evidence of unemployment, incapacity for work or limited capability for work",
  "text": "For the purpose of any claim to a jobseeker’s allowance, incapacity benefit, contributory employment and support allowance or severe disablement allowance by a mariner or share fisherman employed on board any ship or vessel, evidence may be taken—\n(a) in any part of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland, before a judge or magistrate, or by a superintendent;\n(b) in a foreign country, by a British consular officer.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 5 substituted (29.11.1984) by The Social Security (Severe Disablement Allowance) Regulations 1984 (S.I. 1984/1303), regs. 1, 15(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 5 substituted (7.10.1996) by The Social Security and Child Support (Jobseeker’s Allowance) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/1345), regs. 1, 21(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 5 substituted (13.4.1995) by The Social Security (Incapacity Benefit) (Consequential and Transitional Amendments and Savings) Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/829), regs. 1(1), 4(3) (with Pt. III)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 5 inserted (27.10.2008) by The Employment and Support Allowance (Consequential Provisions) (No. 2) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1554), regs. 1(2)(b), 67(4)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 5 heading substituted (27.10.2008) by The Employment and Support Allowance (Consequential Provisions) (No. 2) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1554), regs. 1(2)(b), 67(4)(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1975/529/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:12:32.457386+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."
}