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2.—(1) The principal Order shall have effect subject to the amendments provided for in this Article.
(2) In Article 1(2) (interpretation);
(a)before the definition of “the New Deal”, there shall be inserted the following definition:
““facilities” means facilities provided for the participant in pursuance of one or more of the New Deal Components;”;
(b)in the definition of “the New Deal Components”, after “the Voluntary Sector Option” there shall be inserted “, the Employment Option”;
(c)after the definition of “the New Deal Components”, there shall be inserted the following definition:
““trading receipt” means, in relation to a New Deal Participant under the Employment Option, any payment made to him in consideration of goods or services supplied by him in the course of his participation under that option;” and
(d)in the passage following the definition of “training allowance”, the words after “facilities” to the end of the paragraph shall be deleted.
(3) For Article 2 (treatment of persons and payments for the purposes of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992(1), the Jobseekers Act 1995(2) and specified subordinate legislation), there shall be substituted the following provision:
“2.—(1) The provisions of this article apply for the purposes of—
(a)Part I of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992,
(b)the Jobseekers Act 1995 and
(c)the subordinate legislation specified in the Schedule to this Order.
(2) If, for any period or periods commencing with or falling after the date on which this Order comes into force, during which a person is a New Deal Participant and is participating in either the Full-time Education and Training Option, the Voluntary Sector Option or the Environment Task Force Option, that person receives, or is eligible to receive, a training allowance, he is to be treated for that period or those periods and in respect of his participation as not being employed but as participating in arrangements for training under section 2 of the 1973 Act; and accordingly any payment made to such a person during that period or those periods in connection with his use of facilities shall be treated in the same manner as a payment of training allowance made in respect of such training.
(3) If, for any period or periods commencing with or falling after the date on which this paragraph comes into force, during which a person is a New Deal Participant and is participating in the Employment Option in a capacity other than that of employee, that person receives, or is eligible to receive, a training allowance, he is to be treated for that period or those periods and in respect of his participation as not being employed but as participating in arrangements for training under section 2 of the 1973 Act; and accordingly any payment, other than a trading receipt, made to such a person during that period or those periods in connection with his use of facilities shall be treated in the same manner as a payment of training allowance made in respect of such training.”.
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