The Social Security (Jobseeker’s Allowance Consequential Amendments) (Deductions) Regulations 1996

Amendment of regulation 1 of the Community Charges Regulations

6.  In regulation 1(2) of the Community Charges Regulations—

(a) in the definition of “appropriate social security office” for the words “Department of Employment” there are substituted the words “Department for Education and Employment”, and for the words “unemployment benefit” there are substituted the words “jobseeker’s allowance and income support”;

(b) in the definition of “income support”, there are added at the end the words “but does not include any back to work bonus under section 26 of the Jobseekers Act which is paid as income support;”;

(c) after that definition there are inserted the following definitions—

““Jobseekers Act” means the Jobseekers Act 1995(1);

“jobseeker’s allowance” means an allowance under Part I of the Jobseekers Act but does not include any back to work bonus under section 26 of that Act which is paid as jobseeker’s allowance;”.

(1)

1995 c. 18.