{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-act-northern-ireland-2007/section-11D",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-act-northern-ireland-2007/section-11D.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": "section/11D",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "11D",
  "heading": "Persons subject to no work-related requirements",
  "text": "(1) The Department may not impose any work-related requirement on a person falling within this section.\n(2) A person falls within this section if—\n(a) the person has limited capability for work and work-related activity,\n(b) the person has regular and substantial caring responsibilities for a severely disabled person,\n(c) the person is a single person responsible for a child under the age of one,\n(d) the person is of a prescribed description.\n(3) Where a person falls within this section, any work-related requirement previously applying to the person ceases to have effect.\n(4) In this section—\n“regular and substantial caring responsibilities” has such meaning as may be prescribed;\n“severely disabled” has such meaning as may be prescribed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 11 11L and crossheading substituted for (2.5.2016 for specified purposes, 27.9.2017 for specified purposes and subsequently on the days on which and for the purposes for which \"the amending provisions\" are brought into force by secondary legislation) by The Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/2006), arts. 2(2), 63(2); S.R. 2016/215, art. 2(3)(b); S.R. 2017/190, art. 9 (with arts. 10-25)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2007/2/section/11D",
    "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."
}