{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-no-2-regulations-northern-ireland-1998/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-no-2-regulations-northern-ireland-1998/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1998/81",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-no-2-regulations-northern-ireland-1998",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Housing Benefit, Income Support, Jobseeker’s Allowance: Amendments with respect to persons in detention",
  "text": "(1) For the words referred to in each of the provisions specified in paragraph (2) there shall be substituted “who is detained in hospital”—\n(2) The words referred to and the provisions specified in this paragraph are—\n(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(b) in the Income Support Regulations—\n(i) in regulation 21(3) (special cases) in the definition of “prisoner” for “whose detention is”;\n(ii) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(c) in the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations in regulation 85(4) (special cases) in the definition of “prisoner” for “whose detention is”.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 5(2)(a) revoked (20.11.2006) by The Housing Benefit (Consequential Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 (S.R. 2006/407), reg. 1(1), Sch. 1 (with regs. 2, 6(2), Sch. 3, Sch. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 5(2)(b)(ii) revoked (coming into operation in accordance with reg. 1(1)(d) of the amending Rule) by The Social Security (Hospital In-Patients) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005 (S.R. 2005/580), reg. 1(1)(d), Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 in operation at 1.4.1998 for specified purposes, see reg. 1(5)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Reg. 5 in operation at 6.4.1998 for specified purposes, see reg. 1(5)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "Reg. 5 coming into operation in accordance with reg. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I4",
      "text": "Reg. 5 in operation at 7.4.1998 for specified purposes, see reg. 1(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 1996 No. 375"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The definition of “prisoner” was substituted by regulation 2(6)(a) of S.R. 1995 No. 86"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1998/81/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:24:59.890632+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."
}