The Project Work (Miscellaneous Provisions) Order 1996

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Project Work (Miscellaneous Provisions) Order 1996 and shall come into force on 17th July 1996.

Interpretation

2.  In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires—

“Project Work” means the programme of combined work experience and supervised jobsearch provided in pursuance of arrangements made by the Secretary of State under section 2 of the Employment and Training Act 1973 and known as Project Work;

“training allowance” means a payment made, directly or indirectly, by the Secretary of State to a Project Work Participant in connection with his participation in Project Work;

and a person is, or, as the case may be, was at any material time, a “Project Work Participant” if he is, or, as the case may be, was at that time, using facilities provided for him in pursuance of arrangements made for Project Work.

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.

Eric Forth

Minister of State,

Department for Education and Employment

24th June 1996