{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-transitional-provisions-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/regulation-39",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-transitional-provisions-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/regulation-39.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2016/226",
  "legislation_title": "The Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-transitional-provisions-regulations-northern-ireland-2016",
  "path": "regulation/39",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "39",
  "heading": "Loss of benefits penalties maximum total reduction",
  "text": "Where regulations 36 and 38 both apply to a claimant, the total amount of a reduction of universal credit in respect of any assessment period under—\n(a) regulation 37; and\n(b) regulation 3ZB of the Social Security (Loss of Benefit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002,\nmust not exceed the amount of the standard allowance which is applicable to the claimant in respect of that period.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 39 coming into operation in accordance with reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See Article 14 of the Order"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2016/226/regulation/39",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-12T03:32:14.754663+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."
}