PART II JOBSEEKING

Chapter IV Attendance, Information and Evidence

Circumstances in which a claimant is to be regarded as having good cause for failing to comply with a [F1 notification] under regulation 23 [F2 or 23A]

30.  For the purposes of regulation 27, a claimant is to be regarded as having good cause for failing to comply with a [F1 notification] under regulation 23 [F2 or 23A]—

(a) where, if regulation 5(1) applies in his case, he was required to attend at a time less than 48 hours from receipt by him of the [F1 notification];

(b) where, if regulation 5(2) applies in his case, he was required to attend at a time less than 24 hours from receipt by him of the [F1 notification];

(c) where he was, in accordance with regulation 14(1)(a)—(g), (k)—(n) or 14(2), treated as available for employment on the day on which he failed to attend;

(d) where the day on which he failed to attend falls in a week in which he was, in accordance with regulation 19(1)(p) and 19(2), treated as actively seeking employment.

Textual Amendments

F1 Word in reg. 30 substituted (11.9.2000) by The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/2194), regs. 1, 2(5)

F2 Words in reg. 30 inserted (19.3.2001) by The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Joint Claims) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/1978), reg. 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 8