Section 8 (attendance etc) is amended as follows.

In subsection (1A)(a) (as originally enacted), for “the Secretary of State” there is substituted “an employment officer“.

In subsection (2), for paragraphs (a) to (c) there is substituted “ 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. ”