The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Joint Claims) Regulations 2000

15.  In regulation 52 (persons treated as engaged in remunerative work)—

(a) in paragraph (2), after the words “income-based jobseeker’s allowance” in the first place where they occur there shall be inserted the words “but not a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance”;

(b) after paragraph (2) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

“(2A) For the purposes of a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance, a member of a joint-claim couple shall be treated as engaged in remunerative work where—

(a) he is or was involved in a trade dispute;

(b) had the joint-claim couple of which he is a member claimed a jobseeker’s allowance jointly, section 14 (trade disputes) would have applied in the case of one or both members of that couple; and

(c) the joint-claim couple were not entitled to a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance when that member of the joint-claim couple became involved in the trade dispute,

and shall be so treated for a period of 7 days beginning on the date the stoppage of work commenced at that member’s place of employment or, if there was no stoppage of work, the date on which that member first withdrew his labour in furtherance of the trade dispute.”.