{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-supplementary-payments-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/regulation-4F",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-supplementary-payments-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/regulation-4F.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2016/178",
  "legislation_title": "The Welfare Supplementary Payments Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-supplementary-payments-regulations-northern-ireland-2016",
  "path": "regulation/4F",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4F",
  "heading": "Entitlement to welfare supplementary payment where couple separates",
  "text": "(1) Paragraph (2) applies where—\n(a) A and B were a couple,\n(b) on or after 31 May 2016, A and B ceased to be a couple, and\n(c) immediately before that, either the couple or A were entitled to a welfare supplementary payment under this Part.\n(2) Where this paragraph applies, regulation 4(2)(a) is to be treated as being satisfied in respect of B on the date that A and B cease to be a couple.\n(3) Paragraph (4) applies where—\n(a) A and B were a couple,\n(b) on or after 31 May 2016, A and B ceased to be a couple, and\n(c) immediately before that, either the couple or A were entitled to a welfare benefit.\n(4) Where this paragraph applies, then for the purposes of regulation 4(2)(a), B is to be treated as if B was entitled to that welfare benefit from the date that the couple or A were entitled to it.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 4F inserted (6.2.2017) by The Welfare Supplementary Payment (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017 (S.R. 2017/28), regs. 1(2), 21"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2016/178/regulation/4F",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:56:56.779311+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."
}