{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-northern-ireland-order-2015-commencement-no-8-and-transitional-and-transitory-provisions-order-2017/article-23",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2017/190",
  "legislation_title": "The Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 (Commencement No. 8 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions) Order 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-northern-ireland-order-2015-commencement-no-8-and-transitional-and-transitory-provisions-order-2017",
  "path": "article/23",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Transitional provision: references to contributory employment and support allowance and contribution-based jobseeker’s allowance",
  "text": "Where the amending provisions have come into force under Article 6(1) in relation to the case of a claim referred to in Article 6(2) (and any award that is made in respect of the claim), then, in relation to such a case, any reference in the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 or the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 to—\n(a) a contributory employment and support allowance is to be read as if it included a reference to a new style ESA award; and\n(b) a contribution-based jobseeker’s allowance is to be read as if it included a reference to a new style JSA award.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Arts. 10-23 applied (13.11.2017) by The Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 (Commencement No. 9 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions) Order 2017 (S.R. 2017/216), art. 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Arts. 10-23 applied (15.1.2018) by The Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 (Commencement No. 10 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions and Commencement No. 9 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions (Amendment)) Order 2018 (S.R. 2018/1), art. 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Arts. 10-23 applied (9.5.2018) by The Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 (Commencement No. 11 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions) Order 2018 (S.R. 2018/97), art. 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Arts. 10-23 applied (19.7.2018) by The Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 (Commencement No. 12 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions and Commencement No. 9, 10 and 11 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions (Amendment)) Order 2018 (S.R. 2018/138), art. 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Arts. 10-23 apllied (31.1.2019) by The Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 (Commencement No. 14 and Savings and Transitional Provisions) Order 2019 (S.R. 2019/7), art. 2(12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 23 in operation at made date"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1992 c. 8."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1992 c. 7."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2017/190/article/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:51:17.449886+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."
}