{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/regulation-31",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/regulation-31.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2016/216",
  "legislation_title": "The Universal Credit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-regulations-northern-ireland-2016",
  "path": "regulation/31",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": "Meaning of “regular and substantial caring responsibilities for a severely disabled person”",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of Part 2 of the Order and these Regulations, a person has regular and substantial caring responsibilities if—\n(a) they satisfy the conditions for entitlement to a carer’s allowance or would do so but for the fact that—\n(i) their earnings have exceeded the limit prescribed for the purposes of that allowance; or\n(ii) they are—\n(aa) resident, or treated as resident, in Scotland; or\n(bb) resident outside of Northern Ireland and have a genuine and sufficient link to Scotland; or\n(b) they are entitled to carer support payment.\n(2) paragraph (1)(a) applies whether or not the person has made a claim for a carer's allowance.\n(3) A person does not have regular and substantial caring responsibilities for a severely disabled person if the person derives earned income from those caring responsibilities.\n(4) For the purposes of paragraph (1), “sufficient” has the meaning given in paragraph 3 of Schedule 1 to the Carer’s Assistance (Carer Support Payment) (Scotland) Regulations 2023.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 31(1) substituted (19.11.2023) by The Carer’s Assistance (Carer Support Payment) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/1218), arts. 1(2), 51(4)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 31(2) substituted (19.11.2023) by The Carer’s Assistance (Carer Support Payment) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/1218), arts. 1(2), 51(4)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 31(4) inserted (19.11.2023) by The Carer’s Assistance (Carer Support Payment) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/1218), arts. 1(2), 51(4)(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2016/216/regulation/31",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-12T03:38:18.733448+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."
}