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[F1PART X URGENT CASES

Textual Amendments

F1Pt. X revoked in part (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 5) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/3228), reg. 2(1)(b) (with reg. 2(2)-(4))

Urgent cases

147.(1) In a case to which this regulation applies, a claimant’s weekly applicable amount and his income and capital shall be calculated for the purposes of an income-based jobseeker’s allowance in accordance with the following provisions of this Part.

(2) This regulation applies in accordance with the following provisions to–

[F2(a)a claimant to whom paragraph (2A) applies (persons not excluded from income-based jobseeker’s allowance under section 115 of the Immigration and Asylum Act);]

(b)a claimant to whom paragraph (6) (certain persons whose income is not readily available to them) applies.

[F3(2A) This paragraph applies to a person not excluded from entitlement to income-based jobseeker’s allowance under section 115 of the Immigration and Asylum Act by virtue of regulation 2 of the Social Security (Immigration and Asylum) Consequential Amendments Regulations 2000 except for a person to whom paragraphs 3 and 4 of Part I to the Schedule to those Regulations applies.]

F4(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F4(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F4(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(6) This paragraph shall only apply to a person who is treated as possessing income by virtue of regulation 105(6) and (7) (notional income) where the income he is treated as possessing is not readily available to him; and—

(a)the amount of jobseeker’s allowance payable to him otherwise than under this Part is less than the amount of a jobseeker’s allowance payable to him under this Part; and

(b)[F5the Secretary of State] is satisfied that, unless the provisions of this Part are applied to the claimant, the claimant or his family will suffer hardship.]