{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-2026/regulation-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-2026/regulation-9.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2026/177",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-2026",
  "path": "regulation/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) Regulations",
  "text": "(1) The Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 are amended in accordance with paragraph (2).\n(2) In regulation 56 (the transitional element – initial amount and adjustment where other elements increase)—\n(a) in paragraph (4), for “paragraphs (5) and (5A)” substitute “paragraphs (5), (5A) and (5B)”;\n(b) after paragraph (5A), insert—\n“(5B) In an assessment period where—\n(a) the carer element has been replaced by the LCW element or the LCWRA element, or\n(b) the LCW element or the LCWRA element has been replaced by the carer element,\nthe “relevant increase” is to be treated as the net increase (if any) produced by deducting the amount of the element which is being removed from the amount of the element replacing it.”;\n(c) in paragraph (6)—\n(i) after “In this regulation,” insert ““carer element”,”;\n(ii) after ““housing costs element”” omit “, “LCW element””;\n(d) after paragraph (6), insert—\n“(7) In this regulation, “LCW element” has the same meaning as in regulation 28 of the Universal Credit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 as it has effect apart from the amendments made by regulation 2(3) of the Universal Credit (Miscellaneous Amendments and Transitional and Savings Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017.”.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 9 in operation at 30.10.2026, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 2016 No. 226"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.R. 2017 No. 146"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2026/177/regulation/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:32:38.671386+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."
}