The Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996

Urgent cases

147.—(1) In a case to which this regulation applies, a claimant’s weekly applicable amount and his income and capital shall be calculated for the purposes of an income-based jobseeker’s allowance in accordance with the provisions of this Part.

(2) This regulation applies in accordance with the following provisions to—

(a) a claimant to whom paragraph (3) (certain persons from abroad) applies;

(b) a claimant to whom paragraph (6) (certain persons whose income is not readily available to them) applies.

(3) This paragraph applies to a person from abroad within the meaning of regulation 85(4) (special cases) who—

(a) having, during any one period of limited leave of a kind referred to in paragraph (a) of that definition (including any period as extended), supported himself without recourse to public funds other than any such recourse by reason of the previous application of this sub-paragraph, is temporarily without funds during that period of leave because remittances to him from abroad have been disrupted provided that there is a reasonable expectation that his supply of funds will be resumed;

(b) is an asylum seeker for the purposes of paragraph (4);

(c) is awaiting the outcome of an appeal made under Part II of the 1971 Act (including any period for which the appeal is treated as pending under section 33(4) of that Act);

(d) is a person to whom paragraph (c) of that definition applies but whose removal from the United Kingdom has been deferred in writing by the Secretary of State;

(e) is a person, other than someone to whom paragraph (c) of that definition applies, who has been granted permission to remain in the United Kingdom pending the removal of a person to whom sub-paragraph (d) applies;

(f) is a person who has no or no further right of appeal under the 1971 Act but has been allowed to remain in the United Kingdom while an application so to remain is, or representations on his behalf are, being considered by the Secretary of State;

(g) is a person to whom paragraph (d) of that definition applies and who has been allowed to remain in the United Kingdom with the consent in writing of the Secretary of State;

(h) is a person to whom paragraph (e), (f) or (g) of that definition applies and whose applicable amount, but for this sub-paragraph, would if calculated in accordance with regulation 85 (special cases) be nil;

(i) is a person other than one to whom sub-paragraph (d) applies who is subject to a direction for his removal from the United Kingdom, but whose removal has been deferred in writing by the Secretary of State.

(4) For the purposes of this paragraph, a person—

(a) becomes an asylum seeker when he has submitted a claim for asylum to the Secretary of State that it would be contrary to the United Kingdom’s obligations under the Convention for him to be removed from, or required to leave, the United Kingdom and that claim is recorded by the Secretary of State as having been made, or

(b) ceases to be an asylum seeker when his claim is recorded by the Secretary of State as having been finally determined or abandoned.

(5) In this regulation “the Convention” means the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees done at Geneva on 28th July 1951 and the Protocol to that Convention.

(6) This paragraph shall only apply to a person who is treated as possessing income by virtue of regulation 105(6) and (7) (notional income) where the income he is treated as possessing is not readily available to him, and—

(a) the amount of jobseeker’s allowance payable to him otherwise than under this Part is less than the amount of a jobseeker’s allowance payable to him under this Part, and

(b) the adjudication officer is satisfied that, unless the provisions of this Part are applied to the claimant, the claimant or his family will suffer hardship.