The Social Security (Coronavirus) (Further Measures) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020

Old style JSA – availability for employment and actively seeking employment

7.—(1) As a consequence of the outbreak of coronavirus disease, a person who has an award of old style JSA is to be treated as—

(a) available for employment; and

(b) actively seeking employment,

for the purposes of the Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 1995(1).

(2) This regulation applies for a period of 3 months beginning with the date that these Regulations come into operation and the Department may extend that period for all cases or any class of case where it appears expedient as a consequence of the continuation of the outbreak of coronavirus disease.

(3) In this regulation, “old style JSA” means a jobseeker’s allowance under the Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 as that Order has effect apart from the amendments made by Part 1 of Schedule 12 to the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 that remove references to an income-based allowance.

(1)

See Article 8(1) for the meaning of “available for employment” and Article 9(1) for the meaning of “actively seeking employment”.