Textual Amendments
F1Ss. 6-6L substituted for ss. 6-10 (25.2.2013 for specified purposes, 29.4.2013 for specified purposes and subsequently on the days on which and for the purposes for which "the amending provisions" are brought into force by secondary legislation) by Welfare Reform Act 2012 (c. 5), ss. 49(3), 150(3); S.I. 2013/358, art. 2(1), Sch. 1 para. 11; S.I. 2013/983, art. 7(1)(b) (with art. 7(2)) (as amended: (1.7.2013) by S.I. 2013/1511, art. 6)
[F2(1)Regulations may make provision for requiring a claimant [F3(other than a joint-claim couple claiming a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance)]—
(a)to [F4participate in an interview in such manner, time and place] as [F5an employment officer] may specify; and
(b)to provide information and such evidence as may be prescribed as to his circumstances, his availability for employment and the extent to which he is actively seeking employment.
[F6(1A)Regulations may make provision—
(a)for requiring each member of a joint-claim couple claiming a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance to [F4participate in an interview in such manner, time and place] as [F7an employment officer] may specify;
(b)for requiring a member of such a couple to provide information and such evidence as may be prescribed as to his circumstances, his availability for employment and the extent to which he is actively seeking employment;
(c)for requiring such a couple to jointly provide information and such evidence as may be prescribed as to the circumstances of each or either member of the couple, the availability for employment of each or either member of the couple and the extent to which each or either member of the couple is actively seeking employment;
(d)where any requirement to provide information or evidence is imposed on such a couple by virtue of paragraph (c), for the joint obligation of the couple to be capable of being discharged by the provision of the information or evidence by one member of the couple.]
(2)Regulations under subsection (1) [F8or (1A)] may, in particular[F9 provide for entitlement to a jobseeker's allowance to cease at such time as may be determined in accordance with any such regulations if, when a person fails to comply with such regulations, that person (or, if that person is a member of a joint-claim couple, either member of the couple) does not make prescribed contact with an employment officer within a prescribed period of the failure.]
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Textual Amendments
F2Ss. 6-6L substituted for ss. 6-10 (25.2.2013 for specified purposes) by Welfare Reform Act 2012 (c. 5), ss. 49(3), 150(3); S.I. 2013/358, art. 2(1), Sch. 1 para. 11
F3Words in s. 8(1) inserted (19.3.2001) by 1999 c. 30, s. 59, Sch. 7 para. 7(2); S.I. 2000/2958, art. 2(2)
F4Words in s. 8(1)(a)(1A)(a) substituted (8.10.2012) by Welfare Reform Act 2012 (c. 5), ss. 45, 150(3); S.I. 2012/2530, art. 2(1)
F5Words in s. 8(1)(a) substituted (11.11.1999) by 1999 c. 30, ss. 70, 89(4)(b), Sch. 8 Pt. V para. 29(3)(a)
F6S. 8(1A) inserted (19.3.2001) by 1999 c. 30, s. 59, Sch. 7 para. 7(3); S.I. 2000/2958, art. 2(2)
F7Words in s. 8(1A)(a) (as originally enacted) substituted (22.10.2012) by Welfare Reform Act 2012 (c. 5), ss. 48, 150(3), Sch. 7 para. 2(2); S.I. 2012/2530, art. 2(2)(f)
F8Words in s. 8(2) inserted (19.3.2001) by 1999 c. 30, s. 59, Sch. 7 para. 7(4); S.I. 2000/2958, art. 2(2)
F9Words in s. 8(2) substituted for s. 8(2)(a)-(c) (22.10.2012) by Welfare Reform Act 2012 (c. 5), ss. 48, 150(3), Sch. 7 para. 2(3); S.I. 2012/2530, art. 2(2)(f)
F10S. 8(2)(ca) repealed (22.10.2012) by Welfare Reform Act 2012 (c. 5), ss. 147, 150(3), {Sch. 14 Pt. 3)}; S.I. 2012/2530, art. 2(2)(g)
F11S. 8(2)(d) repealed (22.10.2012) by Welfare Reform Act 2012 (c. 5), ss. 147, 150(3), {Sch. 14 Pt. 3)}; S.I. 2012/2530, art. 2(2)(g)
F12S. 8(2A)(3) repealed (22.10.2012) by Welfare Reform Act 2012 (c. 5), ss. 147, 150(3), {Sch. 14 Pt. 3)}; S.I. 2012/2530, art. 2(2)(g)
Commencement Information
I1S. 8 wholly in force at 7.10.1996; s. 8 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 41(2); s. 8 in force (12.12.1995) for the purpose of authorising the making of regulations by S.I. 1995/3228, art. 2(b), Sch.; s. 8 in force (7.10.1996) in so far as not already in force by S.I. 1996/2208, art. 2(b)