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6. After regulation 10 of the General Regulations (circumstances in which claimants are not to be treated as available for employment) there shall be inserted the following regulation—
10A.—(1) A claimant shall not be required to be a person who is actively seeking employment where, by virtue of regulation 8 (persons not required to be available for employment), he is not required to be available for employment.
(2) A claimant, other than a person to whom regulation 10(1)(h) applies, shall not be required to be a person who is actively seeking employment during any week in which the adjudication officer is satisfied that, unless income support is paid, the claimant or a member of his family (if any) will suffer hardship.
(3) Subject to paragraph (4), a claimant shall be treated as actively seeking employment in any week if, and only if, he takes such steps in that week as he would be required to take under regulations made under subsection (2)(aa)(i) of Section 17 of the Social Security Act(1) in order to be regarded as actively seeking employed earner’s employment in that week for the purposes of that section.
(4) A claimant shall be treated as actively seeking employment in respect of any week for which he is, or would have been had he made a claim for unemployment benefit, deemed to have been actively seeking employment under regulations made under section 17(1)(a)(i) of the Social Security Act(2).
(5) For the purposes of this regulation, in relation to a claimant,
“week” has the meaning prescribed in regulations made under section 17(2)(aa)(ii) of the Social Security Act which—
if he is entitled to unemployment benefit, applies in his case; and
if he is not entitled to unemployment benefit, would have applied in his case if each of the days for which he claims income support would have fallen within a period of interruption of employment had he claimed unemployment benefit under that Act in respect of those days.”.
Section 17(2)(aa) was inserted by the Social Security Act 1989, section 10(3).
Section 17(1)(a) was amended by the Social Security Act 1989, section 10(2).
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