The Project Work (Miscellaneous Provisions) Order 1996

Treatment of persons and payments for purposes of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 and the subordinate legislation specified in the Schedule

3.—(1) For the purposes of—

(a)Part I of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992(1),

(b)the Jobseekers Act 1995(2) and

(c)the subordinate legislation specified in the Schedule to this Order,

if, for any period or periods commencing with or falling after the date on which this Order comes into force during which a person is a Project Work Participant, that person receives, or is eligible to receive, a training allowance he is to be treated as not being employed but as participating in arrangements for training under section 2 of the 1973 Act; and accordingly any payment made to such a person during that period or those periods in connection with his use of facilities shall be treated in the same manner as a payment of training allowance made in respect of such training.