If a person returns to work with the same employer after a period during which section 125 above applies to him, and whether or not his return is before the end of any stoppage of work in relation to which he is or would be [F1prevented from being entitled to a jobseeker’s allowance]—
(a)that section shall cease to apply to him at the commencement of the day on which he returns to work; and
(b)until the end of the period of 15 days beginning with that day, section 123(1) above shall have effect in relation to him as if the following paragraph were substituted for paragraph (c)—
“(c)in the case of a member of a [F2couple], the other member is not engaged in remunerative work; and”; and
(c)any sum paid by way of income support for that period of 15 days to him or, where he is a member of a [F2couple], to the other member of that couple, shall be recoverable in accordance with the regulations from the person to whom it was paid or from any prescribed person or, where the person to whom it was paid is a member of a [F2couple], from the other member of the couple.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 126 substituted (7.10.1996) by S.I. 1995/2705 (N.I. 15), art. 40(1), Sch. 2 para. 15; S.R. 1996/401, art. 2
F2Words in s. 126 substituted (5.12.2005) by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33), s. 263(8)(d), Sch. 24 para. 98; S.I. 2005/3255, art. 2(1), Sch.