The Social Security (Credits and Contributions) (Jobseeker’s Allowance Consequential and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996

Savings and transitional provisions

4.—(1) For the purposes of determining whether a person is entitled to be credited with earnings in respect of any period before the coming into operation of these Regulations, regulation 9(1) to (8) of the Credits Regulations (credits for unemployment or incapacity for work) shall continue to have effect as if the amendments made by these Regulations had not come into operation.

(2) In regulation 9 of the Credits Regulations (crediting of earnings for the purposes of entitlement to short-term incapacity benefit — further conditions), as substituted by regulation 2(7) of these Regulations, in paragraph (c)(i)—

(a) the reference to a claim for jobseeker’s allowance shall, where the claim relates to a day before the coming into operation of these Regulations, be read as a reference to a claim for unemployment benefit, and

(b) the reference to a claim for short-term incapacity benefit shall, where the claim relates to a day before 13th April 1995 (which is the date from which sickness benefit was replaced by short-term incapacity benefit), be read as a reference to a claim for sickness benefit.

(3) In spite of regulation 8A of the Credits Regulations (credits for unemployment), as inserted by regulation 2(6) of these Regulations, a person to whom the transitionally protected period defined in regulation 9 of the Jobseeker’s Allowance (Transitional Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996(1) (transitionally protected period) applies shall not be entitled to be credited with earnings in respect of a week falling within that period during which he is engaged in employment for 16 hours or more.

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S.R. 1996 No. 200; relevant amending regulations are S.R. 1996 No. 357