The Jobseeker’s Allowance Amendment (New Deal) Regulations 1999

Further circumstances in which a person is to be treated as available for employment

2.—(1) Regulation 17A(7) of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996(1) (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 the following provisions of this regulation.

(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 8A or 9A of the Social Security (Credits) Regulations 1975(2) or which would be credited to a person in accordance with paragraph (1) of that 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 9 of the Social Security (Credits) Regulations 1975(3) as it applied before 7th October 1996 and”.

(3) In sub-paragraph (a) of the definition of “receiving benefit”, after the words “Part I of the Act” there shall be inserted the words “or in accordance with regulation 9A of the Social Security (Credits) Regulations 1975”.

(1)

S.I. 1996/207; regulation 17A was inserted by S.I. 1998/1274 and amended by S.I. 1998/2874.

(2)

S.I. 1975/556; regulation 8A was inserted by S.I. 1996/2367, and regulation 9A was substituted by S.I. 1994/1837 and amended by S.I. 1996/2367.

(3)

S.I. 1975/556; regulation 9 was substituted by S.I. 1996/2367. By virtue of regulation 4(1) of S.I. 1996/2367 for the purposes of determining whether a person is entitled to be credited with earnings in respect of any period before 7th October 1996, regulation 9(1) to (8) of S.I. 1975/556 continues to have effect as if the amendments made by S.I. 1996/2367 had not come into force.