The Social Security and Child Support (Jobseeker’s Allowance) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1996

Amendment of the Jobseeker’s Allowance (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 1995

3.—(1) The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 1995(1) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2) In regulation 1(2) in the definition of “training allowance” after the words “Employment and Training Act 1973” there shall be inserted the words “or section 2 of the Enterprise and New Towns (Scotland) Act 1990(2),”.

(3) In regulation (5A) (Transition from Unemployment Benefit to a Jobseeker’s Allowance: further provisions) for paragraph (2) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

“(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), a person who is disqualified for receiving unemployment benefit in accordance with section 28 of the Benefits Act as in force on 6th October 1996 for the benefit week that includes 7th October 1996 shall be treated as having an award of unemployment benefit for that week.”.

(4) In regulation 14 (claimants subject to disqualification or reduction in benefit) after paragraph (1) the following paragraph shall be inserted—

“(1A) A period of disqualification for receiving unemployment benefit as referred to in paragraph (1) shall be treated as a period during which a contribution-based jobseeker’s allowance was not payable to the claimant under section 19 and days during that period shall be treated as days of entitlement to a contribution-based jobseeker’s allowance for the purposes of section 5(1).”.

(1)

S.I. 1995/3276; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1996/1515 and 1996/2519.

(2)

1990 c. 35.