{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-act-northern-ireland-2007/schedule-2/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-act-northern-ireland-2007/schedule-2/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2007/2",
  "legislation_title": "Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-act-northern-ireland-2007",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Except in prescribed circumstances, a person is not entitled to an employment and support allowance in respect of a prescribed number of days at the beginning of a period of limited capability for work.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 2 excluded (27.9.2017 and further specified dates for specified purposes) by The Employment and Support Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/219), regs. 1(2), 85(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 2 excluded (27.9.2017 and further specified dates for specified purposes) by The Universal Credit, Personal Independence Payment, Jobseekers Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/221), regs. 1(1)(b), 47(6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 2 restricted (temp.) (13.3.2020) by The Employment and Support Allowance and Universal Credit (Coronavirus) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 (S.R. 2020/33), regs. 1(1), 2 (with reg. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 2 wholly in operation at 27.10.2008; Sch. 2 para. 2 not in operation at Royal Assent see s. 60(1); Sch. 2 para. 2 in operation for certain purposes at 1.7.2008 and wholly in operation at 27.10.2008 by S.R. 2008/276, art. 2(2)(c), Sch. Pt. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "nisi/2015/2006",
      "affecting_title": "The Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2007/2/schedule/2/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:21:31.107511+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."
}