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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-northern-ireland-order-2015/article-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-northern-ireland-order-2015/article-12.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/2015/2006",
  "legislation_title": "The Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-northern-ireland-order-2015",
  "path": "article/12",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Basis of awards",
  "text": "(1) Universal credit is payable in respect of each complete assessment period within a period of entitlement.\n(2) In this Part an “assessment period” is a period of a prescribed duration.\n(3) Regulations may make provision—\n(a) about when an assessment period is to start;\n(b) for universal credit to be payable in respect of a period shorter than an assessment period;\n(c) about the amount payable in respect of a period shorter than an assessment period.\n(4) In paragraph (1) “period of entitlement” means a period during which entitlement to universal credit subsists.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 12 in operation at 2.5.2016 for specified purposes by S.R. 2016/215, art. 2(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Art. 12 in operation at 27.9.2017 for specified purposes by S.R. 2017/190, art. 4(3)-(6), Sch. 1 (with art. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "Art. 12 in operation at 15.11.2017 and 13.12.2017 for specified purposes by S.R. 2017/216, art. 3 (with art. 6) (as amended (15.1.2018) by S.R. 2018/1, art. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I4",
      "text": "Art. 12 in operation at 17.1.2018 and further specified dates for specified purposes by S.R. 2018/1, art. 3 (with art. 6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I5",
      "text": "Art. 12 in operation at 16.5.2018 and further specified dates for specified purposes by S.R. 2018/97, art. 3 (with art. 6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I6",
      "text": "Art. 12 in force at 5.9.2018 and further specified dates for specified purposes by S.R. 2018/138, art. 3 (with art. 6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I7",
      "text": "Art. 12 in force at 1.2.2019 for specified purposes by S.R. 2019/7, art. 2(1)-(3) (with art. 2(4)(11))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I8",
      "text": "Art. 12 in operation at 30.3.2022 in so far as not already in operation by S.R. 2022/132, art. 3 (with arts. 4, 5, Sch.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/2015/2006/article/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:38:57.312183+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."
}