{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/regulation-5.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/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Responsibility for children looked after by an authority",
  "text": "(1) There is excluded from regulation 4(6)(a)—\n(a) any period which is in the nature of a planned short term break, or is one of a series of such breaks, for the purpose of providing respite for the person who normally cares for the child or qualifying young person;\n(b) any period during which the child or qualifying young person is placed with, or continues to live with, their parent or a person who has parental responsibility for them;\n(c) any period during which the child or qualifying young person is placed for adoption under the Adoption (Northern Ireland) Order 1987.\n(2) For the purposes of this regulation, a person has parental responsibility if they are not a foster parent and have parental responsibility within the meaning of Article 6 of the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Semicolon in Reg. 5(1)(b) substituted for Full stop (3.4.2024) by The Social Security and Universal Credit (Migration of Tax Credit Claimants and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024 (S.R. 2024/54), regs. 1(2)(c), 7(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 5(1)(c) inserted (3.4.2024) by The Social Security and Universal Credit (Migration of Tax Credit Claimants and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024 (S.R. 2024/54), regs. 1(2)(c), 7(2)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2016/216/regulation/5",
    "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."
}