The Secretary of State may pay such grants, to such persons, as he considers appropriate in relation to expenditure in connection with the provision or maintenance of resettlement places.

In this section “resettlement places” means places at which persons without a settled way of life are afforded temporary accommodation with a view to assisting them to lead a more settled life.

Any grant under this section may be made on such terms and subject to such conditions as the Secretary of State considers appropriate.

Section 30 of, and Schedule 5 to, the M1Supplementary Benefits Act 1976 (provision of resettlement units) shall cease to have effect.

Any grants made by the Secretary of State under this section shall be paid out of money provided by Parliament.

Any sums received by the Secretary of State by way of the repayment of any such grant shall be paid by him into the Consolidated Fund.

Regulations may make provision allowing, in prescribed circumstances, an award of income support to be brought to an end by F1the Secretary of State where the person to whom it was made, or where he is a member of a F2couple his partner F3or the couple, will be entitled to a jobseeker’s allowance if the award is brought to an end.

Regulations may make provision allowing, in prescribed circumstances, an award of a jobseeker’s allowance to be brought to an end by F1the Secretary of State where the person to whom it was made, or where he is a member of a F2couple his partner, F4or where the award was made to a couple a member of the couple, will be entitled to income support if the award is brought to an end.

In this section “partner” means the other member of the couple concerned.

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In this Act—

• F8“adjudication officer” means an adjudication officer appointed under section 38 of the Administration Act;

• “the Administration Act” means the M2Social Security Administration Act 1992;

• “applicable amount” means the applicable amount determined in accordance with regulations under section 4;

• “benefit year” has the meaning given by section 2(4);

• “the Benefits Act” means the M3Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992;

• “child” means a person under the age of 16;

• “claimant” means a person who claims a jobseeker’s allowance F9except that in relation to a joint-claim couple claiming a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance it means the couple, or each member of the couple, as the context requires;;

• “continental shelf operations” has the same meaning as in section 120 of the Benefits Act;

• “contribution-based conditions” means the conditions set out in section 2;

• “contribution-based jobseeker’s allowance” has the meaning given in section 1(4);

• F10“couple” means—

  1. a

     a man and woman who are married to each other and are members of the same household;

  2. b

     a man and woman who are not married to each other but are living together as husband and wife otherwise than in prescribed circumstances;

  3. c

     two people of the same sex who are civil partners of each other and are members of the same household; or

  4. d

     two people of the same sex who are not civil partners of each other but are living together as if they were civil partners otherwise than in prescribed circumstances;

• “employed earner” has the meaning prescribed for the purposes of this Act;

• “employment”, except in section 7, has the meaning prescribed for the purposes of this Act;

• “entitled”, in relation to a jobseeker’s allowance, is to be construed in accordance with—

  1. a

     the provisions of this Act relating to entitlement; and

  2. b

     F11section 1 of the Administration Act and section 27 of the Social Security Act 1998;

• “family” means—

  1. a

     a F12couple;

  2. b

     a F12couple and a member of the same household for whom one of them is, or both are, responsible and who is a child or a person of a prescribed description;

  3. c

     except in prescribed circumstances, a person who is not a member of a F12couple and a member of the same household for whom that person is responsible and who is a child or a person of a prescribed description;

• F13“FAS payments” means payments made under the Financial Assistance Scheme Regulations 2005;

• “Great Britain” includes the territorial waters of the United Kingdom adjacent to Great Britain;

• “income-based conditions” means the conditions set out in section 3;

• “income-based jobseeker’s allowance” has the meaning given in section 1(4);

• F14“income-related employment and support allowance” means an income-related allowance under Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act 2007 (employment and support allowance);

• “jobseeker’s agreement” has the meaning given by section 9(1);

• “jobseeking period” has the meaning prescribed for the purposes of this Act;

• F15“joint-claim couple” and “joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance” have the meanings given by section 1(4);

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• F17“the nominated member”, in relation to a joint-claim couple, shall be construed in accordance with section 3B(4);

• “occupational pension scheme” has the same meaning as it has in the M4Pension Schemes Act 1993 by virtue of section 1 of that Act;

• “pensionable age” has the meaning prescribed for the purposes of this Act;

• “pension payments” means—

  1. a

     periodical payments 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; and

  2. b

     such other payments as may be prescribed;

• “personal pension scheme” means—

  1. a

     a personal pension scheme as defined by section 1 of the M5Pension Schemes Act 1993;

  2. b

     F18an annuity contract or trust scheme approved under section 620 or 621 of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 or a substituted contract within the meaning of section 622(3) of that Act which is treated as having become a registered pension scheme by virtue of paragraph 1(1)(f) of Schedule 36 to the Finance Act 2004; and

  3. c

     a personal pension scheme approved under Chapter 4 of Part 14 of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 which is treated as having become a registered pension scheme by virtue of paragraph 1(1)(g) of Schedule 36 to the Finance Act 2004;

• “prescribed” F20, except in section 27 (and in section 36 so far as relating to regulations under section 27), means specified in or determined in accordance with regulations;

• F19“PPF payments” means any payments made in relation to a person—

  1. a

     payable under the pension compensation provisions as specified in section 162(2) of the Pensions Act 2004 or Article 146(2) of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 2005 (the pension compensation provisions); or

  2. b

     payable under section 166 of the Pensions Act 2004 or Article 150 of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 2005 (duty to pay scheme benefits unpaid at assessment date etc.);

• “public service pension scheme” has the same meaning as it has in the M6Pension Schemes Act 1993 by virtue of section 1 of that Act;

• “regulations” F20, except in section 27 (and in section 36 so far as relating to regulations under section 27), means regulations made by the Secretary of State;

• “tax year” means the 12 months beginning with 6th April in any year;

• C2“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;

• “training” has the meaning prescribed for the purposes of this Act and, in relation to prescribed provisions of this Act, if regulations so provide, includes assistance to find training or employment, or to improve a person’s prospects of being employed, of such a kind as may be prescribed;

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• “week” means a period of 7 days beginning with a Sunday or such other period of 7 days as may be prescribed;

• “work” has the meaning prescribed for the purposes of this Act;

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

For the purposes of this Act, two people of the same sex are to be regarded as living together as if they were civil partners if, but only if, they would be regarded as living together as husband and wife were they instead two people of the opposite sex.

The expressions “F22limited capability for work”, “linked period”, “relevant education” and “remunerative work” are to be read with paragraphs 2, 3, 14 and 1 of Schedule 1.

Subject to any regulations made for the purposes of this subsection, “earnings” is to be construed for the purposes of this Act in accordance with section 3 of the Benefits Act and paragraph 6 of Schedule 1 to this Act.

Any power under this Act to make regulations or orders, other than an order under section F238(3),F249(13), 16(4) or 19(10)(a), shall be exercisable by statutory instrument.

Where any such power is expressed to be exercisable for alternative purposes it may be exercised in relation to the same case for any or all of those purposes.

Any power to make regulations or an order for the purposes of any provision of this Act is without prejudice to any power to make regulations or an order for the purposes of any other provision.

No regulations to which this subsection applies shall be made unless a draft of the statutory instrument containing the regulations has been laid before Parliament and approved by a resolution of each House.

Any other statutory instrument made under this Act, other than one made under section 41(2), shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

The expenditure mentioned in subsection (1)(b) includes expenditure incurred in connection with any inquiry undertaken on behalf of the Secretary of State F27or the Commissioners of Inland Revenue with a view to obtaining statistics relating to the operation of any provision of this Act relating to a jobseeker’s allowance.

There shall be paid out of the National Insurance Fund and into the Consolidated Fund sums estimated by the Secretary of State to balance payments made by him by way of contribution-based jobseeker’s allowance.

The Secretary of State shall pay into the National Insurance Fund sums estimated by him to balance sums recovered by him in connection with payments of contribution-based jobseeker’s allowance.

The F28Commissioners of Inland Revenue shall pay into the National Insurance Fund sums estimated by F29them to be equal to the aggregate of the amounts deducted by employers in accordance with regulations under section 27.

The Secretary of State shall pay into the Consolidated Fund sums estimated by him to balance sums recovered by him in connection with payments made by way of income-based jobseeker’s allowance.

Payments which are required to be made by this section shall be made at such times and in such manner as the F32relevant authority considers appropriate and the Treasury has approved.

This Act may be cited as the Jobseekers Act 1995.

Section 39 and this section (apart from subsections (4) and (5)) come into force on the passing of this Act, but otherwise the provisions of this Act come into force on such day as the Secretary of State may by order appoint.

Different days may be appointed for different purposes.

Schedule 2 makes consequential amendments.

The repeals set out in Schedule 3 shall have effect.

Apart from this section, section 39 and paragraphs 11 to 16, 28, 67 and 68 of Schedule 2, this Act does not extend to Northern Ireland.