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<Number>
<Strong>PART 3</Strong>
</Number>
<Title>Working-age benefits</Title>
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<Number>CHAPTER 2</Number>
<Title>Employment and support allowance</Title>
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<Title>
<Emphasis>Conditions of entitlement</Emphasis>
</Title>
<P1group RestrictStartDate="2016-11-28">
<Title>Period of entitlement to contributory allowance</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/2015/2006/article/57" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisi/2015/2006/article/57" id="article-57">
<Pnumber>57</Pnumber>
<P1para>
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<Pnumber>
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1
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<P2para>
<Text>After section 1 of the Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007 insert—</Text>
<BlockAmendment TargetClass="primary" TargetSubClass="unknown" Context="main" Format="default">
<P1group>
<Title>Duration of contributory allowance</Title>
<P1>
<Pnumber>1A</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<P2>
<Pnumber>1</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>The period for which a person is entitled to a contributory allowance by virtue of the first and second conditions set out in Part 1 of Schedule 1 shall not exceed, in the aggregate, the relevant maximum number of days in any period for which his entitlement is established by reference (under the second condition set out in Part 1 of Schedule 1) to the same two tax years.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2>
<Pnumber>2</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>In subsection (1) the “relevant maximum number of days” is—</Text>
<P3>
<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>365 days; or</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3>
<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>if the Department by order specifies a greater number of days, that number of days.</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2>
<Pnumber>3</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>The fact that a person's entitlement to a contributory allowance has ceased as a result of subsection (1) does not prevent his being entitled to a further such allowance if—</Text>
<P3>
<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>he satisfies the first and second conditions set out in Part 1 of Schedule 1, and</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3>
<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>the two tax years by reference to which he satisfies the second condition include at least one year which is later than the second of the two years by reference to which (under the second condition) his previous entitlement was established.</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2>
<Pnumber>4</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>The period for which a person is entitled to a contributory allowance by virtue of the third condition set out in Part 1 of Schedule 1 (youth) shall not exceed—</Text>
<P3>
<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>365 days; or</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3>
<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>if the Department by order specifies a greater number of days, that number of days.</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2>
<Pnumber>5</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>In calculating for the purposes of subsection (1) or (4) the length of the period for which a person is entitled to a contributory allowance, the following are not to be counted—</Text>
<P3>
<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>days in which the person is a member of the support group,</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3>
<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>days not falling within paragraph (a) in respect of which the person is entitled to the support component referred to in section 2(1)(b), and</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3>
<Pnumber>c</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>days in the assessment phase, where the days immediately following that phase fall within paragraph (a) or (b).</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2>
<Pnumber>6</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>In calculating for the purposes of subsection (1) or (4) the length of the period for which a person is entitled to a contributory allowance, days occurring before the coming into operation of this section are to be counted (as well as those occurring afterwards).</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
</BlockAmendment>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/2015/2006/article/57/2" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisi/2015/2006/article/57/2" id="article-57-2" RestrictStartDate="2016-11-28">
<Pnumber>
<CommentaryRef Ref="key-1457e96a0d77968a0ab71b2a0c2cd79f"/>
2
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>In section 25 of that Act (regulations)—</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/2015/2006/article/57/2/a" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisi/2015/2006/article/57/2/a" id="article-57-2-a">
<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
in the heading, after “regulations” insert
<InlineAmendment>“ and orders ”</InlineAmendment>
;
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/2015/2006/article/57/2/b" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisi/2015/2006/article/57/2/b" id="article-57-2-b">
<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
in subsections (1) and (2) after “regulations” insert
<InlineAmendment>“ or an order ”</InlineAmendment>
.
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/2015/2006/article/57/3" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisi/2015/2006/article/57/3" id="article-57-3" RestrictStartDate="2016-11-28">
<Pnumber>
<CommentaryRef Ref="key-1457e96a0d77968a0ab71b2a0c2cd79f"/>
3
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
In section 26 of that Act (Assembly control) in subsection (1) after “this Part” insert
<InlineAmendment>“ or any order made under section 1A ”</InlineAmendment>
.
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/2015/2006/article/57/4" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisi/2015/2006/article/57/4" id="article-57-4" RestrictStartDate="2016-03-17">
<Pnumber>
<CommentaryRef Ref="key-ffca405392853ddbfbde5de84ae5c27e"/>
4
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>In Schedule 4 to that Act (transition relating to Part 1), in paragraph 7(2), at the end insert—</Text>
<BlockAmendment TargetClass="unknown" TargetSubClass="unknown" Context="schedule" Format="default">
<P3>
<Pnumber>f</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>make provision modifying the application of section 1A in relation to awards of an employment and support allowance to persons previously entitled to existing awards.</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
</BlockAmendment>
</P2para>
</P2>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
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<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef SectionRef="article-57-4" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisi/2015/2006/article/57/4" id="cv9flpl52-00124">Art. 57(4)</CitationSubRef>
in operation at 17.3.2016 by
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,
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(as substituted by
<Citation Class="NorthernIrelandStatutoryRule" Year="2016" Number="166" id="cv9flpl52-00127">S.R. 2016/166</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef SectionRef="article-3" id="cv9flpl52-00128">art. 3</CitationSubRef>
)
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="key-1457e96a0d77968a0ab71b2a0c2cd79f" Type="I">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef StartSectionRef="article-57-1" EndSectionRef="article-57-3" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisi/2015/2006/article/57/1" UpTo="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisi/2015/2006/article/57/3" id="cvcc1e8u2-00007">Art. 57(1)-(3)</CitationSubRef>
in operation at 28.11.2016 by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2016/46" Class="NorthernIrelandStatutoryRule" Year="2016" Number="46" Title="The Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 (Commencement No. 1) Order 2016" id="cvcc1e8u2-00008">S.R. 2016/46</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef SectionRef="article-5-a" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2016/46/article/5/a" CitationRef="cvcc1e8u2-00008" Operative="true" id="cvcc1e8u2-00009">art. 5(a)</CitationSubRef>
(as substituted by
<Citation Class="NorthernIrelandStatutoryRule" Year="2016" Number="166" id="cvcc1e8u2-00010">S.R. 2016/166</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef SectionRef="article-3" id="cvcc1e8u2-00011">art. 3</CitationSubRef>
)
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
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