The Social Security (Unemployment, Sickness and Invalidity Benefit) Regulations 1983

Reckoning of periods of interruption of employment

13.—(1) For the purpose of reckoning periods of interruption of employment, and for that purpose only, a person shall be deemed to be available to be employed in employed earner's employment on any day specified in paragraph (2) and any such day shall be treated as a day of unemployment.

(2) The days specified for the purpose of paragraph (1) are—

(a) any day to which regulation 7(1)(f) (days when a person is attending a training course not to be treated as days of incapacity for work) applies;

(b) any day in respect of which the person concerned is entitled to a supplementary allowance under the Supplementary Benefits Act 1976 if on that day regulation 6(p) of the Supplementary Benefit (Conditions of Entitlement) Regulations 1981(1) applies to him (persons of 60 and over who, for the purposes of entitlement to supplementary allowance, are not subject to condition of availability).

(1)

The relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1982/907, 1983/463.