{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-welfare-to-work-regulations-northern-ireland-1998/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-welfare-to-work-regulations-northern-ireland-1998/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1998/324",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Welfare to Work) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-welfare-to-work-regulations-northern-ireland-1998",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Social Security (Incapacity Benefit) Regulations",
  "text": "After regulation 4 of the Social Security (Incapacity Benefit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1994 (night workers) there shall be inserted the following regulation—\n“Calculating periods of incapacity for work for welfare to work beneficiaries\n4A For the purposes of incapacity benefit, in the case of a person who has been determined in accordance with regulation 13A of the Social Security (Incapacity for Work) (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995 to be a welfare to work beneficiary, section 30C(1)(c) (any two periods of incapacity for work not separated by a period of more than 8 weeks to be treated as one period of incapacity for work) shall have effect as if for the reference to 8 weeks there were substituted a reference to 52 weeks.”.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in operation at 5.10.1998, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1994 No. 461, to which there are amendments not relevant to these regulations"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.R. 1995 No. 41; regulation 13A is inserted by regulation 4(2) of these regulations"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1998/324/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:22:53.851114+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."
}