unemployment benefit (with increase for adult and, where the beneficiary is over pensionable age, child dependants);

sickness benefit (with increase for adult and, where the beneficiary is over pensionable age, child dependants);

maternity allowance (with increase for adult dependants);

for existing beneficiaries only, child’s special allowance.

“the contributor concerned”, for the purposes of any contribution condition, means the person by whom the condition is to be satisfied;

“a relevant class”, in relation to any benefit, means a class of contributions specified in relation to that benefit in subsection (2) above;

except in the expression “benefit year”, “year” means a tax year.

beginning with the first Sunday in January in any calendar year, and

ending with the Saturday immediately preceding the first Sunday in January in the following calendar year;

in the case of 1987-88 or any subsequent tax year, from those of his earnings upon which primary Class 1 contributions have been paid or treated as paid and from Class 2 and Class 3 contributions; and

in the case of any earlier tax year, from his contributions of any of Classes 1, 2 and 3;

establishing, by reference to the satisfaction of contribution conditions, entitlement to any benefit specified in section 20(1) above, other than maternity allowance; and

calculating the additional pension in the rate of a long-term benefit.

from earnings upon which primary Class 1 contributions have been paid or treated as paid;

from earnings which have been credited;

from contributions of different classes paid or credited in the same tax year;

by any combination of the methods mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (c) above,

for 1987-88 or any subsequent tax year, from earnings upon which primary Class 1 contributions are paid at the reduced rate, or

for any earlier tax year, from primary Class 1 contributions paid at the reduced rate or from secondary Class 1 contributions.

for 1987-88 or any subsequent tax year, earnings or Class 2 or Class 3 contributions, or

for any earlier tax year, contributions of any class,

shall be expressed, subject to subsection (2) below, as whole numbers of pounds; and

shall be made ascertainable from tables or rules to be drawn up by the Department and embodied in regulations.

in respect of the tax year 1987-88 and any subsequent tax year, the amount of earnings upon which primary Class 1 contributions have been paid or treated as paid gives rise, subject to subsection (4) below, to an earnings factor for that year equal or approximating to the amount of those earnings; and

any number of Class 2 or Class 3 contributions in respect of a tax year gives rise to an earnings factor for that tax year equal or approximating to that year’s lower earnings limit for Class 1 contributions multiplied by the number of contributions.

compute, in such manner as it thinks fit, an amount which shall be regarded as the amount of that person’s earnings on which primary Class 1 contributions have been paid or treated as paid; or

take the amount of those earnings to be such sum as it may specify in the particular case.

the person is under pensionable age on the day in question and satisfies the contribution conditions specified for unemployment benefit in Schedule 3, Part I, paragraph 1;

any increase (for invalidity) under section 47(1) below;

any increase (for married women) under section 53(2) below or (for deferred entitlement) under Schedule 5 to this Act;

any increase (for dependants) under section 80, 83 or 85 below;

any increase (for Category A or Category B pensioners) under section 132 of the Administration Act which corresponds to an increase under section 150 of the Great Britain Administration Act.

where a person is an employed earner and his employment as such has not been terminated, then in any week a day on which in the normal course that person would not work in that employment or in any other employed earner’s employment shall not be treated as a day of unemployment unless each other day in that week (other than the day referred to in paragraph (e) below) on which in the normal course he would so work is a day of interruption of employment;

“day of interruption of employment” means a day which is a day of unemployment or of incapacity for work;

Sunday or such other day in each week as may be prescribed shall not be treated as a day of unemployment and shall be disregarded in computing any period of consecutive days.

make provision (subject to subsections (1) and (2) above) as to the days which are or are not to be treated for the purposes of unemployment benefit as days of unemployment;

for calculating or estimating the amount or value of any payment made, or goods or services provided, to or for that person by his employer;

for calculating or estimating that person’s level of earnings in the employment in question during any period or for treating him as having such a level of earnings as may be prescribed; and

for calculating or estimating the amount or value of any other sum which falls to be taken into account under the regulations.

with the substitution for subsection (1)(b) of the following paragraph—ldquo;

with the substitution for subsection (3)(c) of the following paragraph—ldquo;

that paragraph (d) of section 25A(1) above shall have effect as if for the reference to 8 weeks there were substituted a reference to a larger number of weeks specified in the regulations; and

that sub-paragraph (ii) of that paragraph shall have effect as if the reference there to 4 consecutive days were to such lesser number of days, whether consecutive or not, within such period of consecutive days, as may be specified in the regulations.

the day on which the claim is made, or

if he would not requalify by reference to that day, his first day of unemployment since he was last in employment as an employed earner.

the person in question has been in employment as an employed earner in that week;

he has worked in such employment for at least 16 hours in that week; and

the week begins after the last day for which he was entitled to unemployment benefit.

an employed earner who has lost employment as an employed earner by reason of a stoppage of work due to a trade dispute at his place of employment is disqualified for receiving unemployment benefit for any day during the stoppage unless he proves that he is not directly interested in the dispute; and

an employed earner who has withdrawn his labour in furtherance of a trade dispute, but does not fall within paragraph (a) above, is disqualified for receiving unemployment benefit for any day on which his labour remains withdrawn.

he has become bona fide employed elsewhere;

his employment has been terminated by reason of redundancy within the meaning of section 11(2) of the M5Contracts of Employment and Redundancy Payments Act (Northern Ireland) 1965; or

he has bona fide resumed employment with his employer but has subsequently left for a reason other than the trade dispute.

“place of employment” in relation to any person, means the factory, workshop, farm or other premises or place at which he was employed, so however that, where separate branches of work which are commonly carried on as separate businesses in separate premises or at separate places are in any case carried on in separate departments on the same premises or at the same place, each of those departments shall for the purposes of this paragraph be deemed to be a separate factory or workshop or farm or separate premises or a separate place, as the case may be;

“trade dispute” means any dispute between employers and employees, or between employees and employees, which is connected with the employment or non-employment or the terms of employment or the conditions of employment of any persons, whether employees in the employment of the employer with whom the dispute arises, or not.

he has lost his employment as an employed earner through his misconduct, or has voluntarily left such employment without just cause;

after a situation in any employment has been properly notified to him as vacant or about to become vacant, he has without good cause refused or failed to apply for that situation or refused to accept that situation when offered to him;

he has without good cause neglected to avail himself of a reasonable opportunity of employment;

he has without good cause refused or failed to carry out any official recommendations given to him with a view to assisting him to find employment, being recommendations which were reasonable having regard to his circumstances and to the means of obtaining that employment usually adopted in the district in which he resides;

he has lost his place on an approved training scheme through his misconduct, or has voluntarily left such a place without good cause;

after a place on an approved training scheme has been properly notified to him as vacant or about to become vacant, he has without good cause refused or failed to apply for that place or refused to accept that place when offered to him; or

he has without good cause neglected to avail himself of a reasonable opportunity of a place on an approved training scheme.

additional conditions with respect to the receipt of unemployment benefit; and

restrictions on the rate and duration of unemployment benefit,

prescribe matters which are or are not to be taken into account in determining whether a person does or does not have good cause for any act or omission; or

prescribe circumstances in which a person is or is not to be regarded as having or not having good cause for any act or omission;

“properly notified”, in subsection (1)(b) and (f) above, means notified by the Department of Economic Development or some other recognised agency, or by or on behalf of an employer;

“official recommendations”, in subsection (1)(d) above, means recommendations in writing made by an officer of the Department of Economic Development;

“week” means any period of 7 days.

to seek or accept employment in a situation which is vacant in consequence of a stoppage of work due to a trade dispute; or

to seek or accept during the permitted period any employment other than employment in his usual occupation at a level of remuneration not lower than he is accustomed to receive.

subsection (1)(a) of section 28 above, so far as it relates to a person who voluntarily leaves such employment without just cause, or

subsection (1)(c) of that section,

initially against so much of the benefit as falls to be paid by virtue of section 25(4) or (5) above or of regulations under section 60 below;

then against any increase in the benefit payable under section 82 below; and

finally against any increase in the benefit payable under section 80 below.

for such sums as are specified in or determined under the regulations to be disregarded for the purposes of this section;

for securing that no reduction in pursuance of subsection (1) above is made in the unemployment benefit for any day before the day which in pursuance of the regulations is treated as that on which relevant payments by way of occupational or personal pension begin;

for the method of determining whether payments by way of occupational or personal pension are made to a person for any week and the amount of any such payments which are so made;

for section 26(1) above and section 57(1) below to have effect, in relation to a person whose rate of unemployment benefit is reduced by virtue of this section, with such modifications as are prescribed.

he is under pensionable age on the day in question and satisfies the contribution conditions specified for short-term incapacity benefit in Schedule 3, paragraph 2; or

on that day he is over pensionable age but not more than 5 years over that age, the period of incapacity for work began before he attained pensionable age, and—

is terminally ill; or

is entitled to the highest rate of the care component of disability living allowance,

a day of incapacity for work means a day on which a person is incapable of work;

a period of incapacity for work means a period of 4 or more consecutive days, each of which is a day of incapacity for work; and

any two such periods not separated by a period of more than 8 weeks shall be treated as one period of incapacity for work.

that paragraph (b) of subsection (1) above shall have effect as if the reference there to 4 consecutive days were to such lesser number of days, whether consecutive or not, within such period of consecutive days as may be specified in the regulations; and

that paragraph (c) of that subsection shall have effect as if for the reference to 8 weeks there were substituted a reference to such larger number of weeks as may be specified in the regulations.

a person who is engaged and normally engaged in remunerative work ceases to be so engaged; and

he is entitled to a disability working allowance for the week in which there falls the last day on which he is so engaged; and

he qualified for a disability working allowance for that week by virtue of the higher rate of short-term incapacity benefit, or long-term incapacity benefit under section 30A above, having been payable to him; and

the first day after he ceases to be engaged as mentioned in paragraph (a) above is for him a day of incapacity for work and falls not later than the end of the period of two years beginning with the last day for which he was entitled to such benefit,

a person becomes engaged in training for work; and

he was entitled to the higher rate of short-term incapacity benefit, or to long-term incapacity benefit under section 30A above, for one or more of the 56 days immediately before he became so engaged; and

the first day after he ceases to be so engaged is for him a day of incapacity for work and falls not later than the end of the period of two years beginning with the last day for which he was entitled to such benefit,

section 30A(4) above (length of entitlement to short-term incapacity benefit);

section 30B(2) above (period after which short-term incapacity benefit is payable at higher rate);

section 30B(4) above (period after which incapacity benefit is payable at long-term rate in case of terminal illness); and

section 30B(5) above (construction of references to short-term incapacity benefit at the higher rate),

the first 3 days of the period of incapacity for work; and

in the case of a woman, any days for which she was entitled to maternity allowance.

a person is entitled to incapacity benefit in respect of any period of a week or part of a week,

a pension payment is payable to him in respect of that period (or a period which forms part of that period or includes that period or part of it), and

the amount of that payment (or, as the case may be, the amount which in accordance with regulations is to be taken as payable to him by way of pension payments in respect of that period) exceeds the threshold,

if the period in question is a week, £85 or such greater amount as may be prescribed; or

if that period is not a week, such proportion of the amount mentioned in paragraph (a) as falls to be calculated in accordance with regulations on such basis as may be prescribed.

for sums of any specified description to be disregarded for the purposes of this section;

for sums of any specified description to be treated for those purposes as payable to persons as pension payments (including, in particular sums in relation to which there is a deferred right of receipt);

for the aggregation of sums of any specified description which are payable as pension payments (or treated as being so payable) in respect of the same or different periods;

for such sums or aggregate sums to be apportioned between or otherwise allocated to periods in respect of which persons are entitled to incapacity benefit.

a periodical payment made in relation to a person under a personal pension scheme or, in connection with the coming to an end of an employment of his, under an occupational pension scheme or a public service pension scheme;

a payment of any specified description, being a payment made under an insurance policy providing benefits in connection with physical or mental illness, disability, infirmity or defect; or

a payment of any other specified description;

the person is under pensionable age on the day in question and satisfies the contribution conditions specified for sickness benefit in Schedule 3, Part I, paragraph 2;

any increase (for married women) under section 53(2) below or (for deferred entitlement) under Schedule 5 to this Act;

any increase (for dependants) under section 80, 83 or 85 below; and

any increase (for Category A or Category B pensioners) under section 132 of the Administration Act which corresponds to an increase under section 150 of the Great Britain Administration Act.

he has become incapable of work through his own misconduct; or

he fails without good cause to attend for, or to submit himself to, such medical or other examination or treatment as may be required in accordance with the regulations, or to observe any prescribed rules of behaviour.

additional conditions with respect to the receipt of sickness benefit; and

restrictions on the rate and duration of sickness benefit,

he shall cease to be entitled to that benefit for any subsequent day of incapacity for work falling within that period; and

the person would be entitled to a Category A retirement pension if his entitlement had not been deferred or if he had not made an election under section 54(1) below; or

the person would be entitled to a Category B retirement pension by virtue of the contributions of his deceased spouse, but for any such deferment or election.

with the modification provided by section 46(1) below, and

with the substitution for section 44(7) below of the following—

if he is also entitled to an invalidity allowance, any increase under section 47(1) or 50(2) below;

any increase (for married women) under section 53(2) below or (for deferred entitlement) under Schedule 5 to this Act;

any increase (for dependants) under section 80, 83 or 85 below; and

any increase (for Category A or Category B pensioners) under section 132 of the Administration Act which corresponds to an increase under section 150 of the Great Britain Administration Act.

a person who is engaged and normally engaged in remunerative work ceases to be so engaged; and

he is entitled to a disability working allowance for the week in which there falls the last day on which he is so engaged; and

he qualified for a disability working allowance for that week by virtue of an invalidity pension under this section having been payable to him; and

the first relevant day after he ceases to be engaged as mentioned in paragraph (a) above is for him a day of incapacity for work and falls not later than the end of the period of 2 years beginning with the last day for which he was entitled to such a pension,

corresponding to that made by or under section 102 below in relation to sickness benefit for persons who have attained pensionable age;

restricting entitlement to invalidity pension under this section in cases where in respect of one or more of the 168 days mentioned in subsection (1) above the person claiming invalidity pension (whether or not he has attained pensionable age) would not have been entitled to sickness benefit but for the provision so made.

at the lower rate so specified if paragraphs (a) and (b) above do not apply, and on the qualifying date the beneficiary was a man under the age of 60 or a woman under the age of 55.

she has become pregnant and has reached, or been confined before reaching, the commencement of the 11th week before the expected week of confinement; and

she has been engaged in employment as an employed or self-employed earner for at least 26 weeks in the F3566 weeks immediately preceding the expected week of confinement; and

she satisfies the contribution condition for a maternity allowance specified in Schedule 3, Part I, paragraph 3; and

she is not entitled to statutory maternity pay for the same week in respect of the same pregnancy.

in the case of a woman who is engaged in employment as an employed earner in the week immediately preceding the 14th week before the expected week of confinement, a weekly rate equal to the lower rate of statutory maternity pay for the time being prescribed under section 162(3) below or the weekly rate specified in Schedule 4, Part I, paragraph 4, whichever is the higher; and

in any other case, the weekly rate specified in Schedule 4, Part I, paragraph 4.

that subsection (2) above shall have effect subject to prescribed modifications in relation to cases in which a woman fails to satisfy the conditions referred to in subsection (1)(b) and (c) above at the commencement of the 11th week before the expected week of confinement, but subsequently satisfies those conditions at any time before she is confined.

Sunday or such other day in each week as may be prescribed shall be disregarded; and

the amount payable by way of that allowance for any other day shall be taken as one sixth of the weekly rate of the allowance.

labour resulting in the issue of a living child, or

labour after F3824 weeks of pregnancy resulting in the issue of a child whether alive or dead,

are less than the lower earnings limit for the relevant tax year, but

are not less than the maternity allowance threshold for that tax year,

for the amount of any payments falling within paragraph (a) or (b) of that subsection to be calculated or estimated in such manner and on such basis as may be prescribed;

for a payment made outside the specified period to be treated as made during that period where it was referable to that period or any part of it;

for aggregating payments made or treated as made to or for the benefit of a woman where, either in the same week or in different weeks, she was engaged in two or more employments (whether, in each case, as an employed earner or a self-employed earner).

“the maternity allowance threshold”, in relation to a tax year, means (subject to subsection (7) below) £30;

“the relevant tax year” means the tax year in which the beginning of the period of 66 weeks mentioned in section 35(1)(b) above falls; and

“specified” means prescribed by or determined in accordance with regulations.

she was under pensionable age at the time when her late husband died, or he was then not entitled to a Category A retirement pension under section 44 below; and

her late husband satisfied the contribution condition for a widow’s payment specified in Schedule 3, Part I, paragraph 4.

the woman is entitled to child benefit in respect of a child falling within subsection (2) below;

the woman is pregnant by her late husband; or

if the woman and her late husband were residing together immediately before the time of his death, the woman is pregnant as the result of being artificially inseminated before that time with the semen of some person other than her husband, or as the result of the placing in her before that time of an embryo, of an egg in the process of fertilisation, or of sperm and eggs.

a son or daughter of the woman and her late husband;

a child in respect of whom her late husband was immediately before his death entitled to child benefit; or

if the woman and her late husband were residing together immediately before his death, a child in respect of whom she was then entitled to child benefit.

for any period falling before the day on which the widow’s entitlement is to be regarded as commencing for that purpose by virtue of section 5(1)(l) of the Administration Act; or

for any period during which she and a man to whom she is not married are living together as husband and wife.

she was, at the husband’s death, over the age of 45 but under the age of 65; or

she ceased to be entitled to a widowed mother’s allowance at a time when she was over the age of 45 but under the age of 65.

for any period falling before the day on which the widow’s entitlement is to be regarded as commencing for that purpose by virtue of section 5(1)(l) of the Administration Act;

for any period for which she is entitled to a widowed mother’s allowance; or

for any period during which she and a man to whom she is not married are living together as husband and wife.

was over the age of 40 but under the age of 55 at the time of her husband’s death; or

is over the age of 40 but under the age of 55 at the time when she ceases to be entitled to a widowed mother’s allowance,

a widowed mother’s allowance,

a widow’s pension,

where the woman’s husband was over pensionable age when he died, references in those sections to the pensioner shall be taken as references to the husband, and

where the husband was under pensionable age when he died, references in those sections to the pensioner and the tax year in which he attained pensionable age shall be taken as references to the husband and the tax year in which he died.

was over the age of 40 but under the age of 55 at the time of her husband’s death; or

is over the age of 40 but under the age of 55 at the time when she ceases to be entitled to a widowed mother’s allowance,

a widowed mother’s allowance,

a widow’s pension,

where the woman’s husband was over pensionable age when he died, references in those sections to the pensioner shall be taken as references to the husband, and

where the husband was under pensionable age when he died, references in those sections to the pensioner and the tax year in which he attained pensionable age shall be taken as references to the husband and the tax year in which he died.

was over the age of 40 but under the age of 55 at the time of her husband’s death; or

is over the age of 40 but under the age of 55 at the time when she ceases to be entitled to a widowed mother’s allowance,

a person whose spouse dies on or after the appointed day is under pensionable age at the time of the spouse’s death, or

the surviving spouse is entitled to child benefit in respect of a child falling within subsection (3) below; or

a son or daughter of the surviving spouse and the deceased spouse; or

a child in respect of whom the deceased spouse was immediately before his or her death entitled to child benefit; or

if the surviving spouse and the deceased spouse were residing together immediately before his or her death, a child in respect of whom the surviving spouse was then entitled to child benefit.