{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-benefit-cap-earnings-exception-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2017/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-benefit-cap-earnings-exception-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2017/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2017/145",
  "legislation_title": "The Universal Credit (Benefit Cap Earnings Exception) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-benefit-cap-earnings-exception-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2017",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Exception to the application of the benefit cap – earnings",
  "text": "(1) The Universal Credit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 are amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).\n(2) Before regulation 7(2)(a) (rounding) insert—\n“(za) regulation 82(1)(a) (exceptions – earnings);”.\n(3) In regulation 82 (exceptions – earnings)—\n(a) in paragraph (1)(a) for “£430” substitute “the amount of earnings that a person would be paid at the hourly rate set out in regulation 4 of the National Minimum Wage Regulations 2015 for 16 hours per week, converted to a monthly amount by multiplying by 52 and dividing by 12”;\n(b) in paragraph (3) for “exceeded the amount mentioned in paragraph (1)(a)”, substitute—\n“exceeded—\n(a) in any month beginning before 1st April 2017, £430; and\n(b) in any other case, the amount calculated in accordance with paragraph (1)(a).”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2015/621; Regulation 4 was substituted by regulation 3 of S.I. 2016/68"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2017/145/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:51:51.301924+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."
}