{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-welfare-to-work-regulations-northern-ireland-1998/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-welfare-to-work-regulations-northern-ireland-1998/regulation-5.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/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Social Security (Widow’s Benefit and Retirement Pensions) Regulations",
  "text": "After regulation 3 of the Social Security (Widow’s Benefit and Retirement Pensions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1979 (provisions applying after election) there shall be inserted the following regulation—\n“Calculating periods of incapacity for work for welfare to work beneficiaries entitled to an addition to long-term incapacity benefit\n3A Section 47(1) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (increase of Category A retirement pension for long-term incapacity) shall have effect, in any case where a person is treated in accordance with regulation 13A of the Social Security (Incapacity for Work) (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995 as a welfare to work beneficiary, 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. 5 in operation at 5.10.1998, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1979 No. 243, to which there are amendments not relevant to these regulations"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 47 was amended by paragraph 33 of Schedule 7 to the Pension Schemes (Northern Ireland) Act 1993 (c. 49) and paragraph 13 of Schedule 1 to the Social Security (Incapacity for Work) (Northern Ireland) Order 1994"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1998/324/regulation/5",
    "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."
}