{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-no-6-regulations-northern-ireland-2010/regulation-4",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2010/345",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments No. 6) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-no-6-regulations-northern-ireland-2010",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations",
  "text": "(1) The Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 are amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (5).\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3), in Schedule A1 (categories of members of a joint-claim couple who are not required to satisfy the conditions in Article 3(2B)(b) of the Order),—\n(a) the following provisions are revoked—\n(i) paragraph 6(a) and (b) (member incapable of work);\n(ii) paragraph 9 (disabled students);\n(iii) paragraph 10 (deaf students), and\n(iv) paragraph 11 (blind members);\n(b) for the heading preceding paragraph 6 substitute “Member treated as capable of work, or member entitled to statutory sick pay”; and\n(c) in paragraph 6(c) for “that Act” substitute “the Benefits Act”.\n(3) A provision revoked or amended by paragraph (2) continues to have effect in relation to a joint-claim couple as if that revocation or amendment had not been made where, immediately before 1st November 2010—\n(a) the couple were entitled to a jobseeker’s allowance; and\n(b) that provision applied to a member of that couple.\n(4) Paragraph (3) ceases to apply to a joint-claim couple upon termination of the jobseeker’s allowance award to which they were entitled to immediately before 1st November 2010.\n(5) In paragraph 6B of Schedule 6 (sums to be disregarded in the calculation of income other than earnings), after sub-paragraph (2) add—\n“(3) Any increase in respect of a dependent child or dependent young person under section 80 or 90 of the Benefits Act where—\n(a) the claimant has a child or young person who is a member of the claimant’s family for the purposes of the claimant’s claim for income-based jobseeker’s allowance; and\n(b) the claimant, or that claimant’s partner, has been awarded a child tax credit.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Schedule A1 was inserted by Schedule 1 to S.R. 2000 No. 350"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Paragraph 6B was inserted by paragraph 23(b) of Schedule 2 to S.R. 2003 No. 195"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2010/345/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:24:57.806147+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."
}