The Jobseeker's Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016

1. Introductory Text

2. PART 1 GENERAL

   1. 1. Citation, commencement and application

   2. 2. General interpretation

   3. 3. Further interpretation

3. PART 2 CLAIMANT RESPONSIBILITIES

   1. 4. Interpretation

   2. 5. Application of regulations where there is dual entitlement

   3. 6. Sanction ceases to apply to jobseeker's allowance

   4. 7. Claimant commitment — date and method of acceptance

   5. 8. Claimant commitment — exceptions

   6. 9. Expected hours

   7. 10. Purposes of a work-focused interview

   8. 11. Work search requirement: interviews

   9. 12. Work search requirement: all reasonable action

   10. 13. Work availability requirement: able and willing immediately to take up paid work

   11. 14. Work search requirement and work availability requirement: limitations

   12. 15. Victims of domestic violence

   13. 16. Circumstances in which requirements must not be imposed

   14. 17. Further circumstances in which requirements must not be imposed

4. PART 3 SANCTIONS

   1. 18. Interpretation

   2. 19. General principles for calculating reduction periods

   3. 20. Higher-level sanctions

   4. 21. Medium-level sanctions

   5. 22. Low-level sanction

   6. 23. Start of the reduction

   7. 24. Reduction period to continue where award of jobseeker's allowance terminates

   8. 25. Suspension of a reduction where a fraud sanction applies

   9. 26. Termination of a reduction

   10. 27. Amount of reduction for each benefit week

   11. 28. Daily reduction rate

   12. 29. Failures for which no reduction is applied

   13. 30. Sanctions where universal credit ends and the person is entitled to a jobseeker's allowance

5. PART 4 INFORMATION AND EVIDENCE

   1. 31. Provision of information and evidence

   2. 32. Information given electronically

6. PART 5 CONDITIONS OF ENTITLEMENT

   1. 33. The conditions and relevant earnings

   2. 34. Relaxation of the first set of conditions

   3. 35. Waiting days

   4. 36. Jobseeking period

   5. 37. Jobseeking periods: periods of interruption of employment

   6. 38. Linking periods

   7. 39. Persons approaching retirement and the jobseeking period

   8. 40. Persons temporarily absent from Northern Ireland

   9. 41. Remunerative work

   10. 42. Persons treated as engaged in remunerative work

   11. 43. Persons treated as not engaged in remunerative work

   12. 44. Relevant education

   13. 45. Short periods of sickness

   14. 46. Extended periods of sickness

   15. 47. Periods of sickness and persons receiving treatment outside Northern Ireland

   16. 48. Prescribed amount of earnings

7. PART 6 AMOUNTS OF JOBSEEKER'S ALLOWANCE

   1. 49. Weekly amounts of jobseeker's allowance

   2. 50. Deductions in respect of earnings

   3. 51. Payment by way of pensions

   4. 52. Minimum amount of a jobseeker's allowance

8. PART 7 EARNINGS

   1. 53. Rounding of fractions

   2. 54. Calculation of earnings derived from employed earner's employment

   3. 55. Calculation of earnings of self-employed earners

   4. 56. Date on which earnings are treated as paid

   5. 57. Calculation of weekly amount of earnings

   6. 58. Earnings of employed earners

   7. 59. Calculation of net earnings of employed earners

   8. 60. Earnings of self-employed earners

   9. 61. Calculation of net profit of self-employed earners

   10. 62. Deduction of tax and contributions for self-employed earners

   11. 63. Notional earnings

9. PART 8 PART WEEKS

   1. 64. Amount of a jobseeker's allowance payable

   2. 65. Relevant week

   3. 66. Modification in the calculation of income

10. PART 9 SHARE FISHERMEN

    1. 67. Interpretation

    2. 68. Special provisions in respect of share fishermen

    3. 69. Modifications of Article 4 of the Order

    4. 70. Modification of Article 2(2) of the Order

    5. 71. Additional conditions for payment of a jobseeker's allowance

    6. 72. Remunerative work

    7. 73. Calculation of earnings

    8. 74. Amount payable

11. PART 10 MODIFICATION OF THE ORDER

    1. 75. Modification of contribution conditions for volunteer development workers

12. Signature

13. 1. SCHEDULE

       Sums to be disregarded in the calculation of earnings

       1. 1. (1) In the case of a claimant who has been...

       2. 2. (1) In the case of a claimant to whom this...

       3. 3. Any payment to which regulation 58(1)(f) applies—

       4. 4. In the case of a claimant who has been engaged...

       5. 5. In a case to which neither of paragraphs 6 and...

       6. 6. £20 of the total earnings derived from one or more...

       7. 7. Where the claimant is engaged in one or more employments...

       8. 8. Notwithstanding paragraphs 1 to 7 of this Schedule, where 2...

       9. 9. Any earnings derived from employment which are payable in a...

       10. 10. Where a payment of earnings is made in a currency...

       11. 11. Any earnings which are due to be paid before the...

       12. 12. (1) Where by reason of earnings to which sub-paragraph (2)...

       13. 13. In this Schedule “part-time employment” means employment in which the...

14. Explanatory Note