{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-2025/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-2025/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2025/3",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-2025",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Universal Credit Regulations (Northern Ireland)",
  "text": "(1) The Universal Credit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 are amended as follows.\n(2) In paragraph 11 (additional room) of Schedule 4 (housing costs element for renters)—\n(a) for sub-paragraph (6) substitute—\n“(6) A renter satisfies the disabled child condition if they or another member of their extended benefit unit are responsible for a child who would (but for the provisions of this paragraph) be expected to share a bedroom and that child is—\n(a) in receipt of—\n(i) the care component of disability living allowance at the middle or highest rate; or\n(ii) the care component of child disability payment at the middle or highest rate in accordance with regulation 11(5) of the DACYP Regulations; and\n(b) that child is, by virtue of their disability, not reasonably able to share a room with another child;”\n(b) in sub-paragraph (6A)(a)—\n(i) in sub-paragraph (ii) omit “at the higher rate”;\n(ii) in sub-paragraph (iia) omit “at the higher rate in accordance with regulation 6 of the Disability Assistance for Older People (Scotland) Regulations 2024”.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 in operation at 27.1.2025, see reg. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Relevant amending instruments are S.R. 2017 No. 70 and S.I. 2021/786"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2025/3/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:27:05.040009+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."
}