{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-unemployment-sickness-and-invalidity-benefit-amendment-no-3-regulations-1989/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-unemployment-sickness-and-invalidity-benefit-amendment-no-3-regulations-1989/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/2122",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Unemployment, Sickness and Invalidity Benefit) Amendment No. 3 Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-unemployment-sickness-and-invalidity-benefit-amendment-no-3-regulations-1989",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 7 of the principal Regulations",
  "text": "In regulation 7 of the principal Regulations (days not to be treated as days of unemployment)—\n(a) in paragraph (1), after sub-paragraph (n) there shall be added the following sub-paragraph—\n“(o) subject to regulation 9, a day shall not be treated as a day of unemployment in relation to any person, if—\n(i) it falls within a period of 7 days (including Sundays) ending on the week-day corresponding to the particular week-day specified in a written notice last given to him by the Secretary of State for the purpose of his claiming unemployment benefit; and\n(ii) his earnings in respect of that period are equal to or exceed the weekly lower earnings limit for the time being specified for Class 1 contributions under the Act.”;\n(b) in paragraph (2) for the words “Paragraph (1)(e) shall not apply to a person unless” there shall be substituted the words “Paragraph (1)(e) shall apply to a person if his earnings in the week in which the day falls exceed £12.00 and either”;\n(c) after paragraph (5) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—\n“(5A) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(o), where during a period of 7 days the lower earnings limit changes reference shall be made to the lower earnings limit specified at the end of that period.”;\n(d) in paragraph (6), in the definition of “week”, after the word “week” there shall be inserted the words “, except in paragraphs (1)(e) and (2),”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/2122/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:34:44.825279+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."
}