{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-act-northern-ireland-2010/section-29",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-act-northern-ireland-2010/section-29.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2010/13",
  "legislation_title": "Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-act-northern-ireland-2010",
  "path": "section/29",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "29",
  "heading": "Persons under pensionable age to take part in work-focused interviews etc.",
  "text": "(1) The Administration Act is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 2A (claim or full entitlement to certain benefits conditional on work-focused interview)—\n(a) in subsection (1)(a), for sub-paragraph (ii) substitute—\n“(ii) has not attained pensionable age at the time of making the claim (but see subsection (1A)),”,\n(b) in subsection (1)(b)(i), for “is under that age and” substitute “ has not attained pensionable age and is ”, and\n(c) after subsection (1) insert—\n“(1A) For the purposes of subsection (1) a man born before 6 April 1955 is treated as attaining pensionable age when a woman born on the same day as the man would attain pensionable age.”.\n(3) In section 2AA (full entitlement to certain benefits conditional on work-focused interview for partner)—\n(a) in subsection (1)(a), for sub-paragraphs (i) and (ii) substitute—\n“(i) has not attained pensionable age (but see subsection (1A)), and\n(ii) has a partner who has also not attained pensionable age,”, and\n(b) after subsection (1) insert—\n“(1A) For the purposes of subsection (1) a man born before 6 April 1955 is treated as attaining pensionable age when a woman born on the same day as the man would attain pensionable age.”.\n(4) In sections 2A(1)(a) and 2AA(1), for “a work-focused interview” substitute “ one or more work-focused interviews ”, and in section 2A(1)(b), for “such an interview” substitute “ one or more work-focused interviews ”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "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/2010/13/section/29",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:21:03.731909+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."
}