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Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007
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Whole provisions yet to be inserted into this Act (including any effects on those provisions):
- s. 1(3)(za) inserted by S.I. 2015/2006 (N.I.) art. 67(2)
- s. 1(3B) inserted by S.I. 2015/2006 (N.I.) art. 67(3)
- s. 14(5) added by 2010 c. 13 (N.I.) s. 25(2)
- s. 14(5) amendment to earlier affecting provision 2010 c. 13 (N.I.), s. 25(2) by S.I. 2015/2006 (N.I.) art. 60(7)
- s. 14(5) words substituted by S.R. 2016/76 Sch. 6 para. 56(b)
- Sch. 1 para. 6(1)(da) inserted by 2010 c. 13 (N.I.) s. 5(2)(a)
- Sch. 1 para. 6(2A) inserted by 2010 c. 13 (N.I.) s. 5(2)(b)
- Sch. 2 para. 4B inserted by S.I. 2015/2006 (N.I.) art. 67(4)
- Sch. 3 para. 12(4)(5) repealed by S.I. 2015/2006 (N.I.) Sch. 12 Pt. 1
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18—(1) Regulations may provide for a person to be disqualified for receiving an employment and support allowance, or treated for such purposes as the regulations may provide as not having limited capability for work, if—
(a)he has become someone who has limited capability for work through his own misconduct,
(b)he remains someone who has limited capability for work through his failure without good cause to follow medical advice, or
(c)he fails without good cause to observe any prescribed rules of behaviour.
(2) Regulations under subsection (1) shall provide for any such disqualification, or treatment, to be for such period not exceeding six weeks as may be determined in accordance with Chapter 2 of Part 2 of the 1998 Order.
(3) Regulations may prescribe for the purposes of subsection (1)—
(a)matters which are, or are not, to be taken into account in determining whether a person has good cause for any act or omission;
(b)circumstances in which a person is, or is not, to be regarded as having good cause for any act or omission.
(4) Except where regulations otherwise provide, a person shall be disqualified for receiving [F1an employment and support allowance] for any period during which he is—
(a)absent from Northern Ireland; or
(b)undergoing imprisonment or detention in legal custody.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 18(4) substituted (2.5.2016 for specified purposes, 27.9.2017 for specified purposes, 15.11.2017 and 13.12.2017 for specified purposes, 17.1.2018 and further specified dates for specified purposes, 16.5.2018 and further specified dates for specified purposes, 5.9.2018 and further specified dates for specified purposes, 1.2.2019 for specified purposes) by The Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/2006), art. 2(2), Sch. 3 para. 21(d); S.R. 2016/215, art. 2(2)(c)(vi); S.R. 2017/190, art. 6 (with arts. 7, 8, 10-25, Sch. 3); S.R. 2017/216, art. 4 (with art. 5); S.R. 2018/1, art. 4 (with art. 5); S.R. 2018/97, art. 4 (with art. 5); S.R. 2018/138, art. 4 (with art. 5); S.R. 2019/7, art. 2(5)-(7) (with art. 2(8)-(12))
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 18(4)(b) excluded (27.10.2008) by Employment and Support Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 (S.R. 2008/280), regs. 1(1), 160(1)(3)
C2S. 18(4)(b) excluded by Employment and Support Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 (S.R. 2008/280), reg. 160(3) (as substituted (25.3.2010) by Social Security (Persons Serving a Sentence of Imprisonment Detained in Hospital) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 (S.R. 2010/58), reg. 5(3)(a))
C3S. 18(4)(b) excluded (27.9.2017 and further specified dates for specified purposes) by The Employment and Support Allowance Regulations(Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/219), regs. 1(2), 96(1)
C4S. 18(4)(b) excluded (27.9.2017 and further specified dates for specified purposes) by The Employment and Support Allowance Regulations(Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/219), regs. 1(2), 96(3)
Commencement Information
I1S. 18 wholly in operation at 27.10.2008; s. 18 not in operation at Royal Assent see s. 60(1); s. 18(1)(2)(4) in operation for certain purposes at 1.7.2008 and wholly in operation at 27.10.2008 by S.R. 2008/276, art. 2(2)(c), Sch. Pt. 1; s. 18 in operation at 27.10.2008 in so far as not already in operation by S.R. 2008/276, art. 2(2)(d), Sch. Pt. 2
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