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Northern Ireland: maximum week's pay for awards

The most a week's pay can count for when a Northern Ireland tribunal works out an award.

£783.00per week
Primary source only Statutory Instrument Northern Ireland in force since 2026-04-06

Checked against its sources: statute verified 2026-09-21

Scope: Northern Ireland only. Uprated each April by the Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order (Northern Ireland), RPI-linked, effective 6 April; the 2026 Order revokes its 2025 predecessor (art 2). The GB figure is a different instrument with a different base and is never coupled to this one. No GOV.UK page states the Northern Ireland limits (guidance is on nidirect and nibusinessinfo, outside OFFICIAL_B_DOMAINS), so the record is single-source A by design until that list is widened.

Current sources

Source A · Legislationhttps://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2026/57/made (NISR 2026/57 Schedule, row "Article 23(1) of the 1996 Order": £749.00 -> £783.00; in operation 6 April 2026, art 1(1))
retrieved 2026-09-08

History

ValueFromToStatusSources
£783.002026-04-06—Primary source only
£749.00unknown2026-04-05Primary source only

Receipt

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Figure ID
employment.ni_rights.weeks_pay_cap
Name in the API
Maximum amount of a week's pay for calculating awards (Northern Ireland)
Record fields (source type · unit · jurisdiction · status)
si·GBP/week·NI·single_source_A
Record hash (canonical JSON, SHA-256)
sha256:38899e80108711fcd43b5ad2f8175132931f8ec2f70eabdc92d65770ef26bcee
Source snapshots (SHA-256)
Legislation: sha256:7842ae296f76d1b8cd7309f1461600d4640ba7b631a16be975da23669bf83eab
Listed in the signed manifest
release 3.0.0 manifest · record_hashes["employment.ni_rights.weeks_pay_cap"]
Machine-readable record
/v1/figures/employment.ni_rights.weeks_pay_cap · current only: /v1/figures/employment.ni_rights.weeks_pay_cap/current
Compiler's notes

Named from source by the instrument finder (WS6-INSTRUMENT-MAP.md, 2026-09-08): the Order's Schedule is the increase-of-limits table shape and tabular.extract_figures reads it whole; the build re-derives the value from the row and attests the prior one from the same row's old column. The 2025 Order that set the prior value is revoked and not archived, so its start date is marked pending backfill.