http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2016/218/regulation/37The Jobseeker's Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016texttext/xmlenSOCIAL SECURITYStatute Law Database2024-11-12Expert Participation2024-10-21 These Regulations provide for a social security benefit to be known as a jobseeker's allowance. The benefit is for people who are out of work and are seeking employment. People will only be able to claim the benefit where they have made sufficient National Insurance contributions. PART 5 CONDITIONS OF ENTITLEMENTJobseeking periods: periods of interruption of employment371For the purposes of Article 4(4)(b)(i) of the Order and for determining any waiting days—awhere a linked period commenced before 7th October 1996, any days of unemployment which form part of a period of interruption of employment where the last day of unemployment in that period of interruption of employment was no more than 8 weeks before the date upon which that linked period commenced;bwhere a jobseeking period or a linked period commences on 7th October 1996, any period of interruption of employment ending within the 8 weeks preceding that date; orcwhere a jobseeking period or a linked period commences after 7thOctober 1996, any period of interruption of employment ending within the 12 weeks preceding the day the jobseeking period or linked period commenced,must be treated as a jobseeking period and, for the purposes of sub-paragraph (a), a day must be treated as being, or not being, a day of unemployment in accordance with section 25A of the Benefits Act (determination of days for which unemployment benefit is payable) and with any regulations made under that section, as in operation on 6th October 1996.2In this regulation—period of interruption of employment” in relation to a period prior to 7th October 1996 has the same meaning as it had in the Benefits Act by virtue of section 25A of that Act (determination of days for which unemployment benefit is payable) as in operation on 6th October 1996;waiting day” means a day—at the beginning of a jobseeking period; andin respect of which a person is not entitled to a jobseeker's allowance.Section 25A was inserted by paragraph 5 of Schedule 1 to the Social Security (Incapacity for Work) (Northern Ireland) Order 1994 (S.I. 1994/1898 (N.I. 12)) and repealed by Article 40(2) of Schedule 3 to the Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/2705 (N.I. 15))
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