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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-transitional-provisions-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/regulation-45",
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  "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/45",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "45",
  "heading": "Migration notice",
  "text": "(1) The Department may, at any time, issue a notice (“a migration notice”) to a person who is entitled to an award of an existing benefit—\n(a) informing the person that all awards of any existing benefits to which they are entitled are to terminate and that they will need to make a claim for universal credit; and\n(b) specifying a day (“the deadline day”) by which a claim for universal credit must be made.\n(2) The migration notice may contain such other information as the Department considers appropriate.\n(3) Subject to paragraphs (3A) , (3B) and (3E), the deadline day must not be within the period of three months beginning with the day on which the migration notice is issued.\n(3A) ... Where a migration notice is issued after cancellation of a previous migration notice or after cancellation of a tax credit closure notice the deadline day may be within such shorter period as the Department considers appropriate.\n(3B) Where a migration notice is—\n(a) issued to a person who is entitled to an award of tax credit; and\n(b) issued on or after 27th January 2025 and before 6th April 2025, the deadline day may be 6th April 2025.\n(3C) Paragraph (3E) applies where—\n(a) a migration notice is issued to a claimant who is entitled to an award of income-based jobseeker’s allowance, income-related employment and support allowance or income support; and\n(b) the deadline day specified in the notice would be after the appointed day for Article 39(1)(a), (b) or (c) of the Order to come into operation in relation to the award.\n(3D) Paragraph (3E) also applies where—\n(a) a migration notice is issued to a claimant who is entitled to an award of housing benefit but not to an award of a benefit to which paragraph (3C)(a) refers; and\n(b) the deadline day specified in the notice would be after the appointed day for Article 39(1)(d) of the Order to come into operation in relation to the award.\n(3E) Where this paragraph applies, the deadline day may be the appointed day.\n(3F) In paragraphs (3C) and (3D), the ‘appointed day’ in relation to an award is a day specified in an order made under Article 2(2) of the Order which is not dependent on the making of a claim for universal credit, ignoring any provision in the order that has the effect that the appointed day does not apply when the day that would otherwise be the appointed day falls within a run-on period.\n(3G) In paragraph (3F)—\n(a) a reference to a claim for universal credit includes a reference to an award of universal credit made without a claim where an order under Article 2(2) of the Order provides for that award to result in the appointment of a day for the coming into operation of Article 39(1)(a) or (b) of the Order in relation to the case of the award; and\n(b) ‘run-on period’ means the two-week period mentioned in regulation 6(2A) or 47(1)(a) or in regulation 4(1) of the Universal Credit (Managed Migration and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019.\n(4) If the person who is entitled to an award of an existing benefit is, for the purposes of that award, a member of a couple or a member of a polygamous marriage, the Department must also issue the migration notice to the other member (or members).\n(5) The Department may cancel a migration notice issued to any person—\n(a) if it has been issued in error; or\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(c) in any other circumstances where the Department considers it necessary to do so in the interests of the person, or any class of person, or to safeguard the efficient administration of universal credit.\n(5A) In a case referred to in paragraph (5)(a) the Department may, instead of cancelling the migration notice, treat that notice as if it were a tax credit closure notice issued to that person and may treat the deadline day in the migration notice as if it were the deadline day in a tax credit closure notice.\n(6) A “notified person” is a person to whom a migration notice has been issued.\n(7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 4 added (24.7.2019) by The Universal Credit (Managed Migration and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019 (S.R. 2019/152), regs. 1(2), 2(8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 45(3) inserted (27.1.2025) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025 (S.R. 2025/3), regs. 1(2), 6(6)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 45(3) substituted (29.1.2026) by The Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2026 (S.R. 2026/4), regs. 1, 2(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 45(3A) inserted (8.6.2024) by The Social Security (State Pension Age Claimants: Closure of Tax Credits) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024 (S.R. 2024/119), regs. 1(1), 2(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Word in reg. 45(3A) omitted (27.1.2025) by virtue of The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025 (S.R. 2025/3), regs. 1(2), 6(6)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Word in reg. 45(3A) substituted (27.1.2025) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025 (S.R. 2025/3), regs. 1(2), 6(6)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Reg. 45(3B) inserted (27.1.2025) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025 (S.R. 2025/3), regs. 1(2), 6(6)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Reg. 45(3C)-(3G) inserted (29.1.2026) by The Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2026 (S.R. 2026/4), regs. 1, 2(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Word in reg. 45(5)(a) inserted (1.8.2022) by The Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022 (S.R. 2022/194), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 1(7)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Reg. 45(5)(b) omitted (1.8.2022) by virtue of The Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022 (S.R. 2022/194), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 1(7)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Reg. 45(5A) inserted (8.6.2024) by The Social Security (State Pension Age Claimants: Closure of Tax Credits) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024 (S.R. 2024/119), regs. 1(1), 2(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "Reg. 45(7) revoked (1.8.2022) by The Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022 (S.R. 2022/194), regs. 1(1), 6"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2016/226/regulation/45",
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  "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."
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