The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Workskill Courses) Pilot (No. 2) Regulations 1997

Now, therefore, the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, in relation to Parts I to V and VII of these Regulations, and the Secretary of State for Social Security, in relation to Part VI of these Regulations, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 6(2) and (4), 7(4), 19(8)(b) and (10)(c), 29(1), (3), (4) and (6), 35, 36(2) and (4) and 40 of the Jobseekers Act 1995 and by sections 123(1)(d) and (e) and 175(1) and (3) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 19922, and of all other powers enabling each of them in that behalf, and after agreement, in respect of Part VI of these Regulations, by organisations appearing to the Secretary of State for Social Security to be representative of the authorities concerned, that consultations should not be undertaken3 and, in respect of all Parts of these Regulations, by the Social Security Advisory Committee that proposals in respect of these Regulations should not be referred to it4 and whereas these Regulations are made with a view to ascertaining whether their provisions will, or will be likely to, encourage persons to obtain work or will, or will be likely to, facilitate the obtaining by persons of work, hereby makes the following Regulations: