2 Amendment of regulation 2 of the Housing Benefit Regulations
1 Regulation 2 of the Housing Benefit Regulations (interpretation) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.
2 In paragraph (1)—
(a) in the definition of “appropriate DSS office” for the words “unemployment benefit” there shall be substituted the words “a jobseeker’s allowance”;
Relevant amending instrument is S.I.1988/1843.
(b) after the definition of “attendance allowance” there shall be inserted the following definition—

““the benefit Acts” means the Contributions and Benefits Act and the Jobseekers Act 1995;”

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1995 c. 18.
(c) after the definition of “housing association” there shall be inserted the following definition—

““an income-based jobseeker’s allowance” has the same meaning in these Regulations as it has in the Jobseekers Act 1995 by virtue of section 1(4) of that Act;”

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3 After paragraph (3), there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

“3A For the purposes of these Regulations, a person is on an income-based jobseeker’s allowance on any day in respect of which an income-based jobseeker’s allowance is payable to him and on any day—
(a) in respect of which he satisfies the conditions for entitlement to an income-based jobseeker’s allowance but where the allowance is not paid in accordance with section 19 of the Jobseekers Act 1995 (circumstances in which a jobseeker’s allowance is not payable); or
(b) which is a waiting day for the purposes of paragraph 4 of Schedule 1 to that Act and which falls immediately before a day in respect of which an income-based jobseeker’s allowance is payable to him or would be payable to him but for section 19 of that Act.”

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