The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1999

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

3.  In regulation 14(1) of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations, after sub-paragraph (n) there shall be added the following sub-paragraph—

“(o) if

(i) he is available for employment, or is treated as such, on the day he makes his claim for a jobseeker’s allowance; and

(ii) the Secretary of State has directed that the prescribed time for claiming a jobseeker’s allowance be extended under regulation 19(6) of the Claims and Payments Regulations(1) where the circumstances specified in regulation 19(7)(d) of those Regulations applied in relation to an entitlement to incapacity benefit or an entitlement to income support by virtue of paragraph 7 of Schedule 1B to the Income Support Regulations(2),

for the period of that extension.”

(1)

The Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987, S.I. 1987/1968; regulation 19 was substituted by S.I. 1997/793.

(2)

The Income Support (General) Regulations 1987, S.I. 1987/1967; Schedule 1B was inserted by S.I. 1996/206.