7.—(1) In relation to a person to whom regulation 3 or 4 applies—
(a)regulation 15(a) of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations (circumstances in which a person is not to be regarded as available) shall be modified in its application to him as if the following words were added after “full-time student” where those words appear for the first time—
“, other than where he is a full-time student by virtue of undertaking an employment-related course as part of the intensive activity period of the New Deal pilot for 25 plus,”, and
(b)if in any week in which he is participating in the intensive activity period of the New Deal pilot for 25 plus he is as part of that programme undertaking as a full-time student or a part-time student an employment-related course for not less than three days in that week, he shall be treated as available for employment for that week.
(2) In this regulation “week” has the same meaning as “benefit week” in regulation 1(2) of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations.