{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-overlapping-benefits-regulations-1979/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-overlapping-benefits-regulations-1979/regulation-16.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1979/597",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Overlapping Benefits) Regulations 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-overlapping-benefits-regulations-1979",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Persons to be treated as entitled to benefit for certain purposes",
  "text": "Any person who would be entitled to any benefit under the Act, Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act, under Part 4 of the 2012 Act or under the Jobseekers Act, or entitled to armed forces independence payment but for these regulations shall be treated as if he were entitled thereto for the purpose of any rights or obligations under the Act and the regulations made under it Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act and regulations made under it, Part 4 of the 2012 Act and regulations made under it or under the Jobseekers Act and regulations made under it, or entitled to armed forces independence payment, (whether of himself or some other person) which depend on his being so entitled, other than for the purposes of the right to payment of that benefit.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 16 inserted (27.10.2008) by The Employment and Support Allowance (Consequential Provisions) (No. 2) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1554), regs. 1(2)(b), 51(5)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 16 inserted (8.4.2013) by The Personal Independence Payment (Supplementary Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/388), reg. 2, Sch. para. 10(4)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 16 substituted (8.4.2013) by The Armed Forces and Reserve Forces Compensation Scheme (Consequential Provisions: Subordinate Legislation) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/591), art. 2(2), Sch. para. 3(4)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 16 inserted (27.10.2008) by The Employment and Support Allowance (Consequential Provisions) (No. 2) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1554), regs. 1(2)(b), 51(5)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 16 inserted (8.4.2013) by The Personal Independence Payment (Supplementary Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/388), reg. 2, Sch. para. 10(4)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 16 substituted (8.4.2013) by The Armed Forces and Reserve Forces Compensation Scheme (Consequential Provisions: Subordinate Legislation) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/591), art. 2(2), Sch. para. 3(4)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1979/597/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T19:18:11.094388+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."
}