Valid from 19/03/2001
[F18A(1)Regulations may prescribe circumstances in which a joint-claim couple may be entitled to a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance without each member of the couple satisfying all the conditions referred to in section 1(2B)(b).E+W+S
(2)Regulations may prescribe circumstances in which, and a period for which, a transitional case couple may be entitled to a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance without having jointly made a claim for it.
(3)In sub-paragraph (2)—
(a)“a transitional case couple” means a joint-claim couple a member of which is entitled to an income-based jobseeker’s allowance on the coming into force of Schedule 7 to the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999; and
(b)“period” shall be construed in accordance with section 3(3).]
Textual Amendments
F1Sch. 1 para. 8A inserted (19.3.2001) by 1999 c. 30, s. 59, Sch. 7 para. 16(2); S.I. 2000/2958, art. 2(2)