Regulation 69 of the 1996 Regulations shall be renumbered “regulation 69(1)" and after paragraph (1) of regulation 69 there shall be added the following paragraph—

“(2)

The prescribed period for the purposes of section 19(2) shall begin—

(a)

where, in accordance with regulation 26A(1) of the Claims and Payments Regulations M2, a jobseeker’s allowance is paid otherwise than fortnightly in arrears, on the day following the end of the last benefit week in respect of which that allowance was paid; and

(b)

in any other case, on the first day of the benefit week following the date on which a jobseeker’s allowance is determined not to be payable.”.