The Social Security and Child Support (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1997

Amendment of Schedule 2 to the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations

4.—(1) Schedule 2 to the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations (housing costs) shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this regulation.

(2) For sub-paragraph (3) of paragraph 13 (linking rules) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph—

“(3) For the purposes of this Schedule, where a claimant has ceased to be entitled to a jobseeker’s allowance because he or his partner is participating in arrangements for training made under section 2 of the Employment and Training Act 1973(1) or attending a course at an employment rehabilitation centre established under that section, he shall be treated as if he had been in receipt of a jobseeker’s allowance for the period during which he or his partner was participating in such a course.”.

(3) In paragraph 17(7)(d) (non-dependant deductions), for the words “a jobseeker’s allowance” there shall be substituted the words “an income-based jobseeker’s allowance”.

(1)

1973 c. 50; section 2 was substituted by the Employment Act 1988 (c. 19), section 25(1) and repealed in part by the Employment Act 1989 (c. 38), section 29(4), Schedule 7, Part I.