{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-unemployment-sickness-and-invalidity-benefit-regulations-1983/regulation-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-unemployment-sickness-and-invalidity-benefit-regulations-1983/regulation-18.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1983/1598",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Unemployment, Sickness and Invalidity Benefit) Regulations 1983",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-unemployment-sickness-and-invalidity-benefit-regulations-1983",
  "path": "regulation/18",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Partial satisfaction of contribution conditions and reduced rates of benefit",
  "text": "(1) Where a person would be entitled to unemployment or sickness benefit but for the fact that the second contribution condition set out in paragraph 1 of Schedule 3 is not satisfied, he shall, if a rate is prescribed for him in paragraph (2), be entitled to such benefit at that rate.\n(2) The weekly rate of unemployment or sickness benefit shall be calculated as a percentage of the rate set out in Part I of Schedule 4; in a case where the second contribution condition would have been satisfied if the multiplier in that condition (instead of being 50) had been 37½, that percentage shall be 75 per cent, and in a case where that condition would have been satisfied if the multiplier had been 25, it shall be 50 per cent.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1983/1598/regulation/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T17:55:51.975824+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."
}