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4.—(1) Where a claimant is entitled to income support for a period immediately preceding a period of temporary absence from Great Britain, his entitlement to income support [F1shall continue only—
(a)in the circumstances specified in paragraph (2), during the first 4 weeks of that period of temporary absence; and
(b)in the circumstances specified in paragraph (3), during the first 8 weeks of that period.]
(2) The circumstances in which a claimant's entitlement to income support is to continue during the first four weeks of a temporary absence from Great Britain are that—
(a)the period of absence is unlikely to exceed 52 weeks; and
(b)while absent from Great Britain, the claimant continues to satisfy the other conditions of entitlement to income support; and
(c)any one of the following conditions applies—
(i)the claimant is not required to be available for employment under regulation 8(1) and Schedule 1 other than paragraph 5, 10, 18 to 20 of that Schedule (persons not required to be available for employment); or
(ii)he is not required to be available for employment under regulation 8(1) and paragraph 5 of Schedule 1 (incapacity for work) and his absence from Great Britain is for the sole purpose of receiving treatment from an appropriately qualified person for the incapacity by reason of which he is not required to be so available; or
(iii)he is in Northern Ireland; or
(iv)he is a member of a couple and he and his partner are both absent from Great Britain, and a premium referred to in paragraph 9, 10, 11 or 13 of Schedule 2 (applicable amounts) is applicable in respect of his partner [F2 or
(v)on the day on which the absence began he was, and had for the previous 28 weeks at least been, continuously incapable of work.]
[F3(3) The circumstances in which a claimant’s entitlement to income support is to continue during the first 8 weeks of a temporary absence from Great Britain are that—
(a)the period of absence is unlikely to exceed 52 weeks; and
(b)the claimant continues to satisfy the other conditions of entitlement to income support; and
(c)the claimant is, or the claimant and any other member of his family are, accompanying a member of the claimant’s family who is a child or young person solely in connection with arrangements made for the treatment of that child or young person for a disease or bodily or mental disablement; and
(d)those arrangements relate to treatment—
(i)outside Great Britain;
(ii)during the period whilst the claimant is, or the claimant and any member of his family are, temporarily absent from Great Britain; and
(iii)by, or under the supervision of, a person appropriately qualified to carry out that treatment.]
[F3(4) In paragraphs (2) and (3) “appropriately qualified” means qualified to provide medical treatment, physiotherapy or a form of treatment which is similar to, or related to, either of those forms of treatment.]
Textual Amendments
F1Words in reg. 4(1) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/547), regs. 1(1)(b), 3(a)
F2Reg. 4(2)(c)(v) and word added (11.4.1988) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1988 (S.I. 1988/663), regs. 1(1), 3
F3Reg. 4(3)(4) added (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/547), regs. 1(1)(b), 3(b)
Commencement Information
I1Reg. 4 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1
5.—(1) Subject to the following provisions of this regulation, for the purposes of section 20(3)(c) of the Act (conditions of entitlement to income support), remunerative work is work in which a person is engaged, or, where his hours of work fluctuate, he is engaged on average, for [F4not less than 16 hours] a week being work for which payment is made or which is done in expectation of payment.
(2) The number of hours for which a person is engaged in work shall be determined—
(a)where no recognisable cycle has been established in respect of a person's work, by reference to the number of hours or, where those hours are likely to fluctuate, the average of the hours, which he is expected to work in a week;
(b)where the number of hours for which he is engaged fluctuate, by reference to the average of hours worked over—
(i)if there is a recognisable cycle of work, the period of one complete cycle (including, where the cycle involves periods in which the person does no work, those periods but disregarding any other absences);
(ii)in any other case, the period of five weeks immediately before the date of claim or the date of review, or such other length of time as may, in the particular case, enable the person's average hours of work to be determined more accurately.
(3) A person shall be treated as engaged in remunerative work during any period for which he is absent from work referred to in paragraph (1) if the absence is either without good cause or by reason of a recognised, customary or other holiday.
(4) A person who makes a claim and to whom or whose partner section 23 of the Act (trade disputes) applies [F5or applied] shall, for the period of seven days following the date on which the stoppage of work due to a trade dispute at his or his partner's place of work commenced or, if there is no stoppage, the date on which he or his partner first withdrew his labour in furtherance of a trade dispute, be treated as engaged in remunerative work.
(5) A person who was, or was treated as being, engaged in remunerative work and in respect of that work earnings to which [F6regulation 35(1)(b) to (d) and (i)] (earnings of employed earners) applies are [F7paid] shall be treated as being engaged in remunerative work for the period for which those earnings are taken into account in accordance with Part V.
[F8(6) For the purposes of this regulation, in determining the number of hours in which a person is engaged or treated as engaged in remunerative work, no account shall be taken of any hours in which the person is engaged in an employment or a scheme to which paragraph (a) to paragraph (f) of regulation 6 (persons not treated as engaged in remunerative work) applies.]
[F9(7) For the purposes of paragraphs (1) and (2), in determining the number of hours for which a person is engaged in work, that number shall include any time allowed to that person by his employer for a meal or for refreshment, but only where that person is, or expects to be, paid earnings in respect of that time.]
Textual Amendments
F4Sch. 9 para. 19 substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/527), regs. 1(1)(b), 9(3)
F5Words in reg. 5(4) inserted (11.4.1988) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1988 (S.I. 1988/663), regs. 1(1), 4
F6Words in reg. 5(5) substituted (9.10.1989) by The Income Support (General) Amendment No. 2 Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/1323), regs. 1(1)(b), 3
F7Word in reg. 5(5) substituted (12.12.1988) by The Income Support (General) Amendment No. 5 Regulations 1988 (S.I. 1988/2022), regs. 1(1)(a), 3
F8Reg. 5(6) added (12.9.1988) by The Income Support (General) Amendment No. 4 Regulations 1988 (S.I. 1988/1445), regs. 1(1)(b), 3
F9Reg. 5(7) added (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/547), regs. 1(1)(b), 4
Commencement Information
I2Reg. 5 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1
6. A person shall not be treated as engaged in [F10remunerative work in so far as—]
[F11(a)he is mentally or physically disabled, and by reason of that disability—
(i)his earnings are reduced to 75 per cent. or less of what a person without that disability and working the same number of hours would reasonably be expected to earn in that employment or in comparable employment in the area; or
(ii)his number of hours of work are 75 per cent. or less of what a person without that disability would reasonably be expected to undertake in that employment or in comparable employment in the area.]
(b)he is engaged in child minding in his home;
(c)he is engaged by a charity or voluntary body or is a volunteer where the only payment received by him or due to be paid to him, is a payment which is to be disregarded under regulation 40(2) and paragraph 2 of Schedule 9 (sums to be disregarded in the calculation of income other than earnings);
(d)he is engaged on a scheme for which a training allowance is being paid; F12...
(e)subject to regulation 5(4) [F13and (5)] (persons treated as engaged in remunerative work) he is a person to whom section 23 of the Act (trade disputes) applies [F14or in respect of whom section 20(3) of the Act (conditions of entitlement to income support) has effect as modified by section 23A(b) of the Act (effect of return to work)];F12...
(f)he is a person who is not required to be available for employment because regulation 8 and paragraph 4 of Schedule 1 (person caring for another) applies to him.
[F15(g)he is in employment and lives in, or is temporarily absent from, a residential care home, a nursing home or residential accommodation and his, or his partner’s, applicable amount falls to be calculated in accordance with Part I of Schedule 4 (applicable amounts of persons in residential care and nursing homes) or, as the case may be, paragraph 9, 10 to 10D, 13, 16 or 18 of Schedule 7 (applicable amounts in special cases).]
[F16(h)he is engaged in any one of the employments mentioned in heads (a) to (d) of sub-paragraph (1) of paragraph 7 of Schedule 8 (which relates to persons serving as firemen, in coastal rescue activities etc); F17...]
[F16(j)he is performing his duties as a councillor, and for this purpose “councillor” has the same meaning as in paragraph 2(6) of Schedule 8 to the Social Security Act [F181989; or]]
[F19(k)he is engaged in caring for a person who is accommodated with him by virtue of arrangements made under any of the provisions referred to in paragraph 26 of Schedule 9 (sums to be disregarded in the calculation of income other than earnings) and is in receipt of any payment specified in that paragraph.]
Textual Amendments
F10Words in reg. 6 substituted (12.9.1988) by The Income Support (General) Amendment No. 4 Regulations 1988 (S.I. 1988/1445), regs. 1(1)(b), 4(a)
F11Reg. 6(a) substituted (7.10.1991) by The Income Support (General) Amendment No. 4 Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/1559), regs. 1(1)(c), 4(a) (with regs. 1(2), 22-24)
F12Word in reg. 6(d)(e) omitted (6.4.1992) by virtue of The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/468), regs. 1(1), 2(a) (with reg. 1(2))
F13Words in reg. 6(e) inserted (12.9.1988) by The Income Support (General) Amendment No. 4 Regulations 1988 (S.I. 1988/1445), regs. 1(1)(b), 4(b)
F14Words in reg. 6(e) inserted (11.4.1988) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1988 (S.I. 1988/663), regs. 1(1), 5
F15Reg. 6(g) added (7.10.1991) by The Income Support (General) Amendment No. 4 Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/1559), regs. 1(1)(c), 4(b) (with reg. 1(2))
F16Reg. 6(h)(j) added (6.4.1992) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/468), regs. 1(1), 2(b) (with reg. 1(2))
F17Word in reg. 6(h) revoked (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 3) Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/2155), regs. 1(1), 13(a)
F18Words in reg. 6(j) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 3) Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/2155), regs. 1(1), 13(b)
F19Reg. 6(k) added (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 3) Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/2155), regs. 1(1), 13(c)
Commencement Information
I3Reg. 6 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1
7.—[F20(1)] For the purposes of section 20(3)(d) of the Act (conditions of entitlement to income support) [F21in so far as it relates to the condition of availability for employment] only work in employed earner's employment within the meaning of the Social Security Act—
(a)which the claimant can reasonably be expected to do;
(b)for which payment is made or which is done in expectation of payment; and
(c)for which he would normally be engaged for [F22not less than 16 hours] a week or, if he is mentally or physically disabled, such lesser number of hours as, having regard to his disability, he is usually capable of working,
shall be treated as employment.
[F23(2) For the purposes of section 20(3)(d) of the Act in so far as it relates to the condition of actively seeking employment, work which is treated as employment for the purposes of paragraph (1) and employment as a self-employed earner under any scheme for assisting claimants to become self-employed earners established under arrangements made pursuant to section 2 of the Employment and Training Act 1973 [F24or section 2 of the Enterprise and New Towns (Scotland) Act 1990] shall be treated as employment.]
Textual Amendments
F20Reg. 7 renumbered as reg. 7(1) (9.10.1989) by The Income Support (General) Amendment No. 2 Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/1323), regs. 1(1)(b), 4
F21Words in reg. 7(1) inserted (9.10.1989) by The Income Support (General) Amendment No. 2 Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/1323), regs. 1(1)(b), 4(a)
F22Words in reg. 7(1)(c) substituted (7.4.1992) by The Income Support (General) Amendment No. 4 Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/1559), regs. 1(1)(d), 5 (with reg. 1(2))
F23Reg. 7(2) added (9.10.1989) by The Income Support (General) Amendment No. 2 Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/1323), regs. 1(1)(b), 4(b)
F24Words in reg. 7(2) inserted (1.4.1991) by The Enterprise (Scotland) Consequential Amendments Order 1991 (S.I. 1991/387), arts. 1, 2, Sch.
Commencement Information
I4Reg. 7 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1
8.—(1) A person, other than one to whom regulation 10(1)(h) applies (circumstances in which a person is to be treated as available for employment), to whom any paragraph of Schedule 1 (persons not required to be available for employment) applies in any week shall not be required to be available for employment in that week.
(2) A person, other than one to whom regulation 10(1)(h) applies, to whom none of the provisions of Schedule 1 F25... applies, shall, where—
(a)a medical practitioner to whom the question of that person's incapacity for work by reason of some disease or bodily or mental disablement has been referred under [F26section 115A of the Social Security Act 1975 (power of adjudicating authorities to refer matters to experts)] is of the opinion that the person is not so incapable; and
(b)that person's medical practitioner continues to supply evidence of his incapacity for work in accordance with regulation 2 of the Social Security (Medical Evidence) Regulations 1976 F27 (evidence of incapacity for work); and
(c)that person has made and is pursuing an appeal against the determination of an adjudication officer that he is not so incapable; and
(d)that person, were he required to be available for employment, would not be treated as so available under regulation 9(1) (persons treated as available for employment),
not be required to be available for employment pending the determination of his appeal.
[F28(3) A person, other than one to whom [F29paragraph (2) or] regulation 10(1)(h) applies, to whom none of the provisions of Schedule 1 applies, shall, for any period when—
(a)he would, were he required to be available for employment, not be treated as so available under regulation 9(1); and
(b)the adjudication officer is satisfied that, unless income Support is paid, the claimant or a member of his family (if any) will suffer hardship,
not be required to be available for employment.]
Textual Amendments
F25Words in reg. 8(2) omitted (8.4.1991) by virtue of The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/236), regs. 1(1)(b), 3(a) (with reg. 1(2))
F26Words in reg. 8(2)(a) substituted (8.4.1991) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/236), regs. 1(1)(b), 3(a) (with reg. 1(2))
F27S.I. 1976/615; the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1982/699 and 1987/409.
F28Reg. 8(3) added (11.4.1988) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1988 (S.I. 1988/663), regs. 1(1), 6
F29Words in reg. 8(3) inserted (8.4.1991) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/236), regs. 1(1)(b), 3(b) (with reg. 1(2))
Commencement Information
I5Reg. 8 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1
9.—(1) Except in a case to which regulation 10 (circumstances in which claimants are not to be treated as available for employment) applies, a claimant shall be treated as available for employment if, and only if—
(a)he is available to be employed within the meaning of section 17(1)(a)(i) of the Social Security Act F30 or Regulations made under it (requirement to be available to be employed for the purposes of unemployment benefit) in employment to which regulation 7 applies (meaning of employment); or
(b)he is normally engaged for less than the number of hours prescribed in paragraph (c) of regulation 7 in respect of him in employment to which that regulation applies, and he is available, within the meaning of section 17(1)(a)(i) or Regulations made under it, for such further number of hours which would, in aggregate with the number of hours for which he is normally engaged, be not less than the number of hours prescribed in paragraph (c) of regulation 7 for his case; or
(c)he satisfies the conditions in paragraph (2) and is attending—
(i)a course of education at an establishment recognised by the Secretary of State as being, or as comparable to, a school or college; or
(ii)a course of training or instruction analogous to a course for which a training allowance would be payable,
and, in either case, he is prepared to terminate the course immediately a suitable vacancy becomes available to him.
(2) the conditions referred to in paragraph (1)(c) are that either—
(a)the claimant was, for a continuous period of not less than three months falling immediately before the commencement date,—
(i)in receipt of a qualifying benefit; or
(ii)on a course of training or instruction organised by or on behalf of [F31Scottish Enterprise, Highlands and Islands Enterprise or] the [F32Secretary of State for Employment] as part of the Youth Training Scheme [F33or Youth Training]; or
(b)during the period of six months falling immediately before the commencement date the claimant was—
(i)for a period, or periods in aggregate, of not less than three months in receipt of a qualifying benefit or on a course of training or instruction organised by or on behalf of [F34Scottish Enterprise, Highlands and Islands Enterprise or] the [F35Secretary of State for Employment] as part of the Youth Training Scheme [F36or Youth Training]; and
(ii)after the period referred to in head (i) of this sub-paragraph or, in the case of periods in aggregate, after the first such period and throughout the remainder of the six months for which that head did not apply to him, engaged in appropriate work;
and that the period of three months referred to in sub-paragraph (a) or, as the case may be, the period of six months referred to in sub-paragraph (b) fell wholly after the terminal date.
(3) In this regulation—
“appropriate work” means remunerative work for the purpose of section 20(3)(c) of the Act (conditions of entitlement to income support) or other work the emoluments from which are such as to disentitle the person engaged in it from a qualifying benefit;
“commencement date” means the date on which the claimant first attended the course of education or course of training or instruction;
“course” means a course in the pursuit of which the time spent receiving instruction or tuition, undertaking supervised study, examination or practical work or taking part in any exercise, experiment or project for which provision is made in the curriculum of the course does not, subject to paragraph (4), exceed 21 hours a week;
“qualifying benefit” means unemployment benefit or sickness benefit under the Social Security Act F37 or, in the case of a claimant who is required to be available for employment under section 20(3)(d) of the Act (conditions of entitlement to income support) or who is not so required under paragraph 5 of Schedule 1 (persons not required to be available by reason of sickness or incapacity), income support.
(4) In calculating the time spent in pursuit of a course for the purpose of this regulation, no account shall be taken of time occupied by meal breaks or spent on unsupervised study, whether undertaken on or off the premises of the educational establishment or place of instruction or training.
Textual Amendments
F301975 c. 14; section 17(1) was amended by the Social Security (No. 2) Act 1980 (c. 39), sections 3(1), 7(6) and the Schedule.
F31Words in reg. 9(2)(a)(ii) inserted (1.4.1991) by The Enterprise (Scotland) Consequential Amendments Order 1991 (S.I. 1991/387), arts. 1, 9(b)
F32Words in reg. 9(2)(a)(ii) substituted (8.4.1991) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/236), regs. 1(1)(b), 2(1)(b) (with reg. 1(2))
F33Words in reg. 9(2)(a)(ii) inserted (8.4.1991) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/236), regs. 1(1)(b), 2(4) (with reg. 1(2))
F34Words in reg. 9(2)(b)(i) inserted (1.4.1991) by The Enterprise (Scotland) Consequential Amendments Order 1991 (S.I. 1991/387), arts. 1, 9(b)
F35Words in reg. 9(2)(b)(i) substituted (8.4.1991) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/236), regs. 1(1)(b), 2(1)(b) (with reg. 1(2))
F36Words in reg. 9(2)(b)(i) inserted (8.4.1991) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/236), regs. 1(1)(b), 2(4) (with reg. 1(2))
F37See sections 12(1)(a) and (b) and 14 of the Social Security Act 1975 (c. 14); section 12(1)(a) and (b) ws amended by the Social Security (No. 2) Act 1980 (c. 39), section 7(6) and the Health and Social Security Act 1984 (c. 48), Schedule 5, paragraph 2; section 14 was amended by the Social Security Pensions Act 1975 (c. 60), sections 18(1) and 65, Schedule 4, paragraph 39, the Social Security Act 1979 (c. 18) and section 21(4), Schedule 3, paragraph 6, the Social Security and Housing Benefits Act 1982 (c. 24), sections 39(3) and 48, Schedule 4, paragraph 9; the Social Security (No. 2) Act 1980 (c. 39), section 7 and the Schedule and the Social Security Act 1986 (c. 50), section 86, Schedule 10, paragraph 83.
Commencement Information
I6Reg. 9 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1
10.—(1) A claimant shall not be treated as available for employment if he is a person to whom any one of the following sub-paragraphs applies—
(a)after a situation in any F38... employment has been properly notified to him as vacant or about to become vacant he has without good cause refused or failed to apply for that situation or refused to accept that situation when offered to him, and that situation is still vacant or open to application;
(b)he has neglected to avail himself of a reasonable opportunity of F39... employment and that opportunity is still available to him;
(c)he has failed to avail himself of a reasonable opportunity of short-term work which is available in the area in which he lives, and—
(i)he is aged 18 or over but under 45;
(ii)his partner, if any, is aged under 45;
(iii)there is no child or young person who is a member of his family;
(iv)his partner or, as the case may be, the claimant herself is not pregnant; and
(v)neither he nor his partner, if any, is mentally or physically disabled;
(d)[F40subject to paragraphs (4) to (6),] he has placed restrictions on the nature, hours, rate of remuneration or locality or other conditions of employment which he is prepared to accept and as a consequence of those restrictions he has no reasonable prospects of securing employment; but this sub-paragraph shall not apply where—
(i)he is prevented from having reasonable prospects of securing employment consistent with those restrictions only as a result of adverse industrial conditions in the locality or localities concerned which may reasonably be regarded as temporary, and, having regard to all the circumstances, personal and other, the restrictions which he imposes are reasonable; or
[F41(ii)the restrictions are reasonable in view of his physical or mental condition; or
(iii)he has a usual occupation and those restrictions relate to it and are consistent with conditions which are usual in that occupation]
(e)having failed to comply with a written notice given or sent to him by or on behalf of the Secretary of State or the [F42Secretary of State for Employment] requesting him to report at a specified time, place and date to an officer of the Department of Health and Social Security, the Department of Employment [F43or a local education authority] for an interview in connection with his prospects of employment, he fails without good cause to comply with the requirements of a further notice given or sent to him within 14 days of the date specified in the first notice by or on behalf of the Secretary of State or, as the case may be, the Training Commission and requesting him to report as aforesaid at a time, place and date specified in the further notice for the purpose of such an interview;
(f)he has been disallowed unemployment benefit on the ground that he failed to claim in the manner prescribed by regulation 4 of the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987 F44 (making a claim for benefit) by virtue of the fact that the form approved by the Secretary of State for the purpose of claiming was not duly completed so far as it related to his availability for employment; or
(g)he is a share fisherman within the meaning of the Social Security (Mariners' Benefits) Regulations 1975 F45 who is not entitled to unemployment benefit under the Social Security Act because he has failed to satisfy the additional condition for receipt of that benefit in paragraph (5) or (8) of regulation 8 of those Regulations (that he performed no work as a sea-going or on-shore share fisherman and that he has not neglected to avail himself of a reasonable opportunity of employment as a fisherman);
[F46(h)he is a student during the period of study, other than—
(i)one to whom paragraph 1, 2, [F477 to 7B], 11, 16 or 20 of Schedule 1 applies (persons not required to be available for employment) but in the case of paragraph 20 only where the student is a person to whom regulation 70 (3) (a) applies (certain persons from abroad); or
(ii)one who has a partner who is also a student, if either he or his partner is treated as responsible for a child or young person, but this exception shall apply only for the period of the summer vacation appropriate to his course.]
(2) A determination that a claimant is not to be treated as available for employment—
(a)under paragraph (1)(a), shall apply for a period not exceeding—
(i)the period during which the situation in question remains vacant; or
(ii)[F4826] weeks,
whichever is the shorter;
(b)under paragraph (1)(b), shall apply for a period not exceeding—
(i)the period during which the opportunity is still available to him; or
(ii)[F4826] weeks,
whichever is the shorter;
(c)under paragraph (1)(c)—
(i)shall not apply until the claimant has been given 14 days' notice in writing and that period has expired, and then
(ii)shall apply for a period not exceeding the period during which the opportunity is still available to him or, if shorter, the period of [F4826] weeks;
(d)under paragraph (1)(d), shall apply for so long as the claimant has no reasonable prospect of employment as a consequence of the restrictions referred to in that paragraph;
(e)under paragraph (1)(e), shall apply on the day specified in the further notice and any subsequent day falling before the day on which the claimant reports to an officer of the Department of Health and Social Security, the Department of Employment [F49or a local education authority] at the place specified in the notice and there attends an interview in connection with his prospects of employment or before the day on which the Secretary of State or, as the case may be, the [F50Secretary of State for Employment] rescinds the further notice, whichever event first occurs;
(f)under paragraph (1)(f), shall apply for so long as the claimant fails to claim in the manner referred to in that paragraph;
(g)under paragraph (1)(g) or (h), shall apply for so long as that paragraph continues to apply to him.
(3) In this regulation—
F51(a). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(b)“properly notified” means notified by an officer acting on behalf of the Secretary of State, or by the [F52Secretary of State for Employment], a local education authority or some other recognised agency, or by or on behalf of an employer.
[F53(4) A determination that paragraph (1)(d) does not apply by reason of the circumstances prescribed in head (iii) of that paragraph shall have effect for a period not exceeding 13 weeks beginning—
(a)in a case where the claimant is not entitled to unemployment benefit and has not been entitled to that benefit for any day since he was last in remunerative work, on the first day for which the claimant makes a claim for income Support since the last day on which he was in remunerative work, or vocational training in his usual occupation, or incapable of work;
(b)in any other case, on the first day for which a claim for unemployment benefit is made since the claimant was last in remunerative work.]
[F53(5) In determining the length of the period for the purposes of paragraph (4) regard shall be had to—
(a)the claimant’s usual occupation and any relevant skills and qualifications which he has acquired;
(b)the length of the periods during which he has undergone training relevant to his usual occupation;
(c)the length of the periods during which he has been employed in his usual occupation and the period since he was last so employed; and
(d)the availability and location of employment in his usual occupation.]
[F53(6) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(d), in deciding whether a claimant has no reasonable prospects of securing employment regard shall be had, in particular, to the length of the period during which he has been unemployed.]
Textual Amendments
F38Word in reg. 10(1)(a) omitted (9.10.1989) by virtue of The Income Support (General) Amendment No. 2 Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/1323), regs. 1(1)(b), 5(a)(i)
F39Word in reg. 10(1)(b) omitted (9.10.1989) by virtue of The Income Support (General) Amendment No. 2 Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/1323), regs. 1(1)(b), 5(a)(i)
F40Words in reg. 10(1)(d) inserted (9.10.1989) by The Income Support (General) Amendment No. 2 Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/1323), regs. 1(1)(b), 5(a)(ii)
F41Reg. 10(1)(d)(ii)(iii) substituted (9.10.1989) by The Income Support (General) Amendment No. 2 Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/1323), regs. 1(1)(b), 5(a)(ii)
F42Words in reg. 10(1)(e) substituted (8.4.1991) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/236), regs. 1(1)(b), 2(1)(c) (with reg. 1(2))
F43Words in reg. 10(1)(e) substituted (8.4.1991) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/236), regs. 1(1)(b), 2(3) (with reg. 1(2))
F46Reg. 10(1)(h) substituted (1.9.1990) by The Social Security Benefits (Student Loans and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/1549), regs. 1(1)(a), 5(3) (with reg. 7(1))
F47Words in reg. 10(1)(h)(i) substituted (1.9.1990) by The Income-Related Benefits Amendment Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/1657), regs. 1, 5(2)
F48Word in reg. 10(2) substituted (11.4.1988) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1988 (S.I. 1988/663), regs. 1(1), 7
F49Words in reg. 10(2)(e) substituted (8.4.1991) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/236), regs. 1(1)(b), 2(3) (with reg. 1(2))
F50Words in reg. 10(2)(e) substituted (8.4.1991) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/236), regs. 1(1)(b), 2(1)(c) (with reg. 1(2))
F51Reg. 10(3)(a) omitted (9.10.1989) by virtue of The Income Support (General) Amendment No. 2 Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/1323), regs. 1(1)(b), 5(b)
F52Words in reg. 10(3)(b) substituted (8.4.1991) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/236), regs. 1(1)(b), 2(1)(c) (with reg. 1(2))
F53Reg. 10(4)-(6) added (9.10.1989) by The Income Support (General) Amendment No. 2 Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/1323), regs. 1(1)(b), 5(c)
Commencement Information
I7Reg. 10 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1
10A.—(1) A claimant shall not be required to be a person who is actively seeking employment where, by virtue of regulation 8 (persons not required to be available for employment), he is not required to be available for employment.
[F55(2) A claimant, other than a person to whom regulation 10(1)(h) applies, shall not be required to be a person who is actively seeking employment during any week in which—
(a)the claimant—
(i)is a single woman and is pregnant, and
(ii)the adjudication officer is satisfied that, unless income support is paid, the claimant will suffer hardship; or
(b)the claimant is a member of a married or unmarried couple where—
(i)one member of that couple is pregnant, and
(ii)the adjudication officer is satisfied that, unless income support is paid, that member will suffer hardship; or
(c)the claimant is a member of a married or unmarried couple where—
(i)he or his partner, or both of them, are responsible for a child or young person, and
(ii)the adjudication officer is satisfied that, unless income support is paid, the child or young person will suffer hardship; or
(d)the claimant’s applicable amount includes a disability premium under Part III of Schedule 2 (premiums) and the adjudication officer is satisfied that, unless income support is paid, the person, whether the claimant or his partner, who satisfies the additional condition in paragraph 12 of that Schedule for the award of the premium will suffer hardship.]
(3) Subject to paragraph (4), a claimant shall be treated as actively seeking employment in any week if, and only if, he takes such steps in that week as he would be required to take under regulations made under subsection (2)(aa)(i) of Section 17 of the Social Security Act in order to be regarded as actively seeking employed earner’s employment in that week for the purposes of that section.
(4) A claimant shall be treated as actively seeking employment in respect of any week for which he is, or would have been had he made a claim for unemployment benefit, deemed to have been actively seeking employment under regulations made under section 17(1)(a)(i) of the Social Security Act.
(5) For the purposes of this regulation, in relation to a claimant,
“week” has the meaning prescribed in regulations made under section 17(2)(aa)(ii) of the Social Security Act which—
if he is entitled to unemployment benefit, applies in his case; and
if he is not entitled to unemployment benefit, would have applied in his case if each of the days for which he claims income support would have fallen within a period of interruption of employment had he claimed unemployment benefit under that Act in respect of those days.]
Textual Amendments
F54Reg. 10A inserted (9.10.1989) by The Income Support (General) Amendment No. 2 Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/1323), regs. 1(1)(b), 6
F55Reg. 10A(2) substituted (3.12.1992) by The Income Support (General) Amendment (No. 3) Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/2804), regs. 1(1), 2
11.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), a claimant who—
(a)is aged less than 18; and
(b)is required to be available for employment for the purposes of section 20(3)(d)(i) of the Act (conditions of entitlement to income support);
must also be registered for employment in accordance with paragraph (3).
(2) A claimant other than one to whom regulation 10(1)(h) (circumstances in which claimants are not to be treated as available for employment) applies and who would, but for this paragraph, be required to be registered for employment in accordance with paragraph (3), shall not be required so to register for employment if—
(a)a medical practitioner to whom the question of the claimant's incapacity for work by reason of some disease or bodily or mental disablement has been referred under [F56section 115A of the Social Security Act 1975 (power of adjudicating authorities to refer matters to experts)] is of the opinion that he is not so incapable; and
(b)the claimant's medical practitioner continues to supply evidence of his incapacity for work in accordance with regulation 2 of the Social Security (Medical Evidence) Regulations 1976 F57 (evidence of incapacity); and
(c)the claimant has made and is pursuing an appeal against the determination of an adjudication officer that he is not so incapable.
(3) A claimant to whom paragraph (1) applies shall, except where the Secretary of State decides otherwise, be registered for employment by registering with the [F58Secretary of State for Employment] or a local education authority.
Textual Amendments
F56Words in reg. 11(2)(a) substituted (8.4.1991) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/236), regs. 1(1)(b), 4 (with reg. 1(2))
F57S.I. 1976/615, the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1982/699 and S.I. 1987/409.
F58Words in reg. 11(3) substituted (8.4.1991) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/236), regs. 1(1)(b), 2(1)(d) (with reg. 1(2))
Commencement Information
I8Reg. 11 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1
12.—(1) For the purposes of these Regulations a child or young person is to be treated as receiving relevant education if, and only if—
(a)he is not receiving advanced education; but
(b)he is receiving full-time education for the purposes of section 2 of the Child Benefit Act 1975 (meaning of child) or, as the case may be, he is treated as a child for the purposes of that section.
(2) For the purposes of this regulation “receiving advanced education” means participating in any course (whether full-time or part-time)—
(a)leading to a postgraduate degree or comparable qualification, a first degree or comparable qualification, a diploma of higher education, [F60a higher national diploma or higher national certificate of either the Business & Technician Education Council] or the Scottish Vocational Education Council or a teaching qualification; or
(b)any other course which is a course of a standard above ordinary national diploma, [F61a national diploma or national certificate of either the Business & Technician Education Council or the Scottish Vocational Education Council], a general certificate of education (advanced level), a Scottish certificate of education [F62(higher level)] or a Scottish certificate of sixth year studies.]
Textual Amendments
F59Reg. 12 substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/547), regs. 1(1)(b), 5
F60Words in reg. 12(2)(a) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 3) Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/2155), regs. 1(1), 14(a)
F61Words in reg. 12(2)(b) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 3) Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/2155), regs. 1(1), 14(b)(i)
F62Words in reg. 12(2)(b) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 3) Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/2155), regs. 1(1), 14(b)(ii)
Commencement Information
I9Reg. 12 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1
13.—(1) Notwithstanding that a person is to be treated as receiving relevant education under regulation 12 (relevant education) he shall, if paragraph (2) applies to him and he satisfies the other conditions of entitlement to income support, be entitled to income support.
(2) This paragraph applies to [F63a person aged 16 or over but under 19 (hereinafter referred to as an eligible person)] who—
(a)is the parent of a child for whom he is treated as responsible under regulation 15 (circumstances in which a person is to be treated as responsible or not responsible for another) and who is treated as a member of his household under regulation 16 (circumstances in which a person is to be treated as being or not being a member of the household); or
(b)is severely mentally or physically handicapped and because of that he would be unlikely, even if he were available for employment, to obtain employment within the next 12 months; or
(c)has no parent nor any person acting in the place of his parents; or
[F64(d)of necessity has to live away from his [F65parents and any] person acting in the place of his parents because–
(i)he is estranged from his [F65parents and that person]; or
(ii)he is in physical or moral danger; or
(iii)there is a serious risk to his physical or mental health;]
[F66(dd)has ceased to live in accommodation provided for him by a local authority under Part III of the Children Act 1989(local authority support for children and families) and is of necessity living away from his parents and any person acting in place of his parents;]
(e)is living away from his parents and any person acting in the place of his parents in a case where his parents are or, as the case may be, that person is unable financially to support him and—
(i)chronically sick or mentally or physically disabled; or
(ii)detained in custody pending trial or sentence upon conviction or under a sentence imposed by a court; or
(iii)prohibited from entering or re-entering Great Britain; or
(f)is attending a course of education to which regulation 9 (persons treated as available for employment) applies and satisfies the other conditions of that regulation; or
(g)has completed or terminated such a course and while attending that course satisfied the other conditions of that regulation; or
(h)he is a person to whom paragraph 16 of Schedule 1 (refugees not required to be available for employment) applies.
(3) In this regulation—
[F67(a)any reference to a person acting in the place of an eligible person’s parents includes—
(i)for the purposes of paragraph (2)(c), (d) and (dd), a reference to a local authority or voluntary organisation where the eligible person is being looked after by them under a relevant enactment or where the eligible person is placed by the local authority or voluntary organisation with another person, that other person, whether or not a payment is made to him;
(ii)for the purposes of paragraph (2)(e), the person with whom the person is so placed;]
(b)“chronically sick or mentally or physically disabled” means, in relation to a person to whom that expression refers, a person—
(i)in respect of whom the condition specified in paragraph 12(1) of Schedule 2 (additional condition for the higher pensioner and disability premiums) is satisfied; or
(ii)in respect of whom an amount under article 26 of the Naval, Military and Air Forces etc (Disablement and Death) Service Pensions Order 1983 F68 (provision of expenses in respect of appropriate aids for disabled living) is payable in respect of the cost of providing a vehicle, or maintaining a vehicle to a disabled person; or
(iii)who is substantially and permanently disabled.
Textual Amendments
F63Words in reg. 13(2) substituted (7.10.1991) by The Income Support (General) Amendment No. 4 Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/1559), regs. 1(1)(c), 6(a) (with reg. 1(2))
F64Reg. 13(2)(d) substituted (10.7.1989) by The Family Credit and Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/1034), regs. 1(1)(a), 4 (with reg. 13)
F65Words in reg. 13(2)(d) substituted (8.4.1991) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/236), regs. 1(1)(b), 5 (with reg. 1(2))
F66Reg. 13(2)(dd) inserted (6.4.1992) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/468), regs. 1(1), 3(1) (with reg. 1(2))
F67Reg. 13(3)(a) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/468), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 2 (with Sch. para. 11)
Commencement Information
I10Reg. 13 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1
13A.—(1) A person to whom this regulation applies and for the period specified in relation to him is a person within the prescribed circumstances and period mentioned in section 20(3)(a) of the Act (conditions of entitlement for persons under 18).
(2) This regulation applies to a person of or over the age of 16—
(a)to whom any paragraph of Schedule 1A (circumstances in which a person aged 16 or 17 is eligible for income support) applies; and
(b)for the period for which that paragraph applies or, if the relevant date specified in paragraph (3) falls within that period, for so much thereof [F70as falls on or before] that date.
(3) In the case of a person—
(a)to whom any paragraph in Part I (persons eligible until 18) of Schedule 1A applies, the relevant date [F71is the day before the date] on which he attains the age of 18;
(b)other than one to whom sub-paragraph (a) applies, to whom any paragraph in Part II (persons eligible until the relevant date) of that Schedule applies, the relevant date is the date determined in accordance with paragraph (7).
(4) This regulation also applies to a person of, or over, the age of 16, other than one to whom any paragraph in [F72Part I of Schedule 1A] applies who is—
(a)incapable of work and training under the youth training scheme [F73or youth training] by reason of some disease or bodily or mental disablement if, in the opinion of a medical practitioner, that incapacity is likely to end within a period of less than 12 months; or
F74(b). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(c)a registered person who has been discharged from any institution to which the Prison Act 1952 applied or from custody under the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 after the relevant date determined in accordance with paragraph (7) and who is within the circumstances specified in Part II of Schedule 1A.
[F75(d)a registered person who has ceased to live in accommodation provided for him by a local authority under Part III of the Children Act 1989 (local authority support for children and families) and is of necessity living away from his parents and any person acting in place of his parents.]
[F76(5) Paragraph (4)(a) shall have effect for a period—
(a)beginning on the date on which paragraph (4)(a) applies to that person which first falls after the relevant date determined in accordance with paragraph (7); and
(b)ending on the day before the date on which that person attains the age of 18 or the date on which paragraph (4)(a) ceases to apply to him, whichever first occurs.]
(6) Paragraph (4)(c) shall have effect for a period—
(a)beginning on [F77the date] on which paragraph (4)(c) applies to that person which first falls F78... after the relevant date determined in accordance with paragraph (7); and
[F79(b)ending on the last day of the period of eight weeks beginning with the date specified in sub-paragraph (a) or on the day before the date on which that person attains the age of 18, whichever first occurs.]
[F80(6A) Paragraph (4)(d) shall have effect for a period—
(a)beginning on the day on which that paragraph first applies to that person; and
(b)ending on the day before the day on which that person attains the age of 18 or the day at the end of a period of 8 weeks immediately following the day on which paragraph (4)(d) first had effect in relation to him, whichever is the earlier.]
[F80(6B) The period mentioned in paragraph (6A) may include any week in which regulation 7 of the Child Benefit (General) Regulations 1976 (circumstances in which a person who has ceased to receive full-time education is to continue to be treated as a child) also applies to that person.]
(7) For the purposes of paragraphs (3)(b) and (4) to (6)—
(a)in the case of a person who ceases to be treated as a child by virtue of section 2(1)(a) of the Child Benefit Act 1975 (meaning of child) or regulation 7 of the Child Benefit (General) Regulations 1976 (circumstances in which a person who has ceased to receive full-time education is to continue to be treated as a child)—
(i)on or after the first Monday in September, but before the first Monday in January of the following year, the relevant date is the last day of the week which falls immediately before the week which includes the first Monday in January in that year;
(ii)on or after the first Monday in January but before the Monday following Easter Monday in that year, the relevant date is the last day of the week which falls 12 weeks after the week which includes the first Monday in January in that year;
(iii)at any other time of the year, the relevant date is last day of the week which falls 12 weeks after the week which includes the Monday following Easter Monday in that year;
(b)in the case of a person who was not treated as a child by virtue of section 2(1)(a) of that Act immediately before he was 16 and who has not been treated as a child by virtue of regulation 7 of those Regulations (interruption of full-time education), the relevant date is the date determined in accordance with sub-paragraph (a)(i), (ii) or (iii) as if he had ceased full-time education on the first date on which education ceased to be compulsory for a person of his age in England and Wales or, if he is resident in Scotland, in Scotland.]
[F81(8) In this regulation, any reference to a person acting in place of a registered person’s parents has the same meaning as it has in Schedule 1A by virtue of paragraph 10 of that Schedule.]
Textual Amendments
F69Reg. 13A inserted (12.9.1988) by The Income Support (General) Amendment No. 3 Regulations 1988 (S.I. 1988/1228), regs. 1(1)(b), 4
F70Words in reg. 13A(2)(b) substituted (8.4.1991) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/236), regs. 1(1)(b), 6(a) (with reg. 1(2))
F71Words in reg. 13A(3)(a) substituted (8.4.1991) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/236), regs. 1(1)(b), 6(b) (with reg. 1(2))
F72Words in reg. 13A(4) substituted (8.4.1991) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/236), regs. 1(1)(b), 6(c)(i) (with reg. 1(2))
F73Words in reg. 13A(4)(a) inserted (8.4.1991) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/236), regs. 1(1)(b), 2(4) (with reg. 1(2))
F74Reg. 13A(4)(b) omitted (8.4.1991) by virtue of The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/236), regs. 1(1)(b), 6(c)(ii) (with reg. 1(2))
F75Reg. 13A(4)(d) added (6.4.1992) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/468), regs. 1(1), 3(2)(a) (with reg. 1(2))
F76Reg. 13A(5) substituted (8.4.1991) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/236), regs. 1(1)(b), 6(d) (with reg. 1(2))
F77Words in reg. 13A(6)(a) substituted (8.4.1991) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/236), regs. 1(1)(b), 6(e)(i) (with reg. 1(2))
F78Words in reg. 13A(6)(a) omitted (8.4.1991) by virtue of The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/236), regs. 1(1)(b), 6(e)(i) (with reg. 1(2))
F79Reg. 13A(6)(b) substituted (8.4.1991) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/236), regs. 1(1)(b), 6(e)(ii) (with reg. 1(2))
F80Reg. 13A(6A)(6B) inserted (6.4.1992) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/468), regs. 1(1), 3(2)(b) (with reg. 1(2))
F81Reg. 13A(8) added (6.4.1992) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/468), regs. 1(1), 3(2)(c) (with reg. 1(2))
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