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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-transitional-provisions-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/schedule-2/paragraph-8",
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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": "schedule/2/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) In this Schedule—\n“LCWRA element” has the meaning in the Universal Credit Regulations;\n“the higher SDP rate” is the rate specified in paragraph 11(2)(b)(ii) of Schedule 4 to the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 or, as the case may be, the corresponding rate of a severe disability premium in relation to income support or income-based jobseeker’s allowance.\n(2) In paragraph 5(b)(i) the reference to a person being a carer for another person is to the person being entitled to, and in receipt of, a carer’s allowance or carer support payment or having an award of universal credit which includes the carer element in respect of caring for that other person.\n(3) In sub-paragraph (2) “carer support payment” means the carer support payment component of carer support given in accordance with the Carer’s Assistance (Carer Support Payment) (Scotland) Regulations 2023.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 substituted (27.1.2021) by The Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) (Claimants previously entitled to a severe disability premium) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021 (S.R. 2021/2), regs. 1, 2 (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 8 renumbered as Sch. 2 para. 8(1) (29.6.2023) by The Social Security, Universal Credit and State Pension (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2023 (S.R. 2023/93), regs. 1, 4(7)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 8(2) inserted (29.6.2023) by The Social Security, Universal Credit and State Pension (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2023 (S.R. 2023/93), regs. 1, 4(7)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 8(2) 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), 52(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 8(3) 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), 52(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 8(3) substituted (15.3.2026) by The Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (Carer’s Assistance) (Consequential Modifications) Order 2026 (S.I. 2026/246), arts. 1(2), 55"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2016/226/schedule/2/paragraph/8",
    "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."
}