{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-2004/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-2004/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2004/45",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-2004",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations",
  "text": "In regulation 1(2) of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 (interpretation) for the definition of “dwelling occupied as the home” there shall be substituted the following definition –\n““dwelling occupied as the home” means the dwelling together with any garage, garden and outbuildings normally occupied by the claimant as his home, including any part thereof not so occupied which it is impracticable or unreasonable to sell separately, together with –\n(a) any agricultural land adjoining that dwelling, and\n(b) any land not adjoining that dwelling which it is impracticable or unreasonable to sell separately;”.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in operation at 29.3.2004, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1996 No. 198; to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2004/45/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:59:16.175775+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."
}