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The Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996
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[F1Prescribed description of a joint-claim couple for the purposes of section 1(4)
3A.—(1) For the purposes of section 1(4), a joint-claim couple shall include any joint-claim couple within the meaning given in section 1(4) of the Act where at least one member [F2is aged 18 or over and] was born after [F328th October [F41947]], unless a member of the couple is treated as responsible for a child or young person under regulation 77(3), or the couple has care of a child or young person in one or more of the circumstances mentioned in regulation 78(4), or a child or young person is living with either member of the couple in the circumstances mentioned in regulation 78(8).
(2) In a case where a person would (but for these Regulations) be a member of more than one joint-claim couple, a joint-claim couple means the couple of which he is a member which that person nominates (or in default of such nomination, which the Secretary of State nominates), to the exclusion of any other couple of which he is a member.]
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F1Pt. 1A inserted (19.3.2001) by The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Joint Claims) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/1978), regs. 1(1), 2(2)
F2Words in reg. 3A(1) inserted (19.3.2001) by The Social Security Amendment (Joint Claims) Regulations 2001 (S.I. 2001/518), regs. 1(2), 2(2)
F3Words in reg. 3A(1) substituted (28.10.2002) by The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Joint Claims) Amendment Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/1701), regs. 1, 2(a)
F4Word in reg. 3A(1) substituted (25.2.2008) by The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Joint Claims) Amendment Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/13), regs. 1, 2(2)
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