1999 No. 467
The Jobseeker’s Allowance (New Deal Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999
Made
Coming into operation
The Department of Health and Social Services, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Article 8(4) of the Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 19951 and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation and commencement1
These Regulations may be cited as the Jobseeker’s Allowance (New Deal Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 and shall come into operation on 30th November 1999.
Further circumstances in which a person is to be treated as available for employment2
1
Regulation 17A(7) of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 19962 (further circumstances in which a person is to be treated as available: full-time students participating in a qualifying course) shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).
2
For the definition of “benefit” there shall be substituted the following definition—
“benefit” means—
- a
income support, unemployment benefit, a jobseeker’s allowance or any earnings credited to a person in accordance with regulation 8A3 (credits for unemployment) or 9A4 (credits for persons approaching pensionable age) of the Social Security (Credits) Regulations (Northern Ireland)5 1975 or which would be credited to a person in accordance with paragraph (1) of regulation 9A but are not so credited by reason only of the fact that no further earnings are in his case required for the purpose mentioned in that paragraph, or
- b
any earnings credited to a person for unemployment in accordance with regulation 96 of the Social Security (Credits) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1975 (credits for unemployment or incapacity for work) as it applied before 7th October 1996 and
3
In paragraph (a) of the definition of “receiving benefit”, after “Part II of the Order” there shall be inserted “or in accordance with regulation 9A of the Social Security (Credits) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1975”.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health and Social Services on 24th November 1999.
(This note is not part of the Regulations.)