The Social Security Amendment (New Deal) Regulations 1998

Interpretation of section 19 of the Jobseekers Act 1995 and Part V of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations

9.  In regulation 75(1)(b) of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations—

(a)in sub-paragraph (i) the word “and" at the end shall be deleted;

(b)in sub-paragraph (ii) for the word “skills." there shall be substituted the words “ skills; and ”; and

(c)after sub-paragraph (ii) there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph—

(iii)for the purposes of section 19(5)(b)(iii) and (iv) and section 19(5)(c), in relation to a person who has been treated as available for employment to any extent under regulation 17A(3), the qualifying course in respect of which he has been so treated..