SCHEDULE 1Local Authorities on which functions are conferred

Regulation 4(1)

PART I

Local Authority

ENGLAND:

Aylesbury Vale

Barking and Dagenham

Calderdale

Castle Point

Chelmsford

Chiltern

Epping Forest

Kirklees

Maldon

Mendip

Milton Keynes

North Warwickshire

Nuneaton and Bedworth

Redbridge

Rochford

Rugby

Sedgemoor

South Bucks

Southend-on-Sea

South Somerset

Stratford-on-Avon

Taunton Deane

Waltham Forest

Warwick

West Somerset

Wycombe

WALES:

Monmouthshire

Newport

Torfean

SCOTLAND:

Argyll and Bute

East Renfrewshire

Inverclyde

North Ayreshire

Renfrewshire

PART II

Amber Valley

Ashfield

Babergh

Bassetlaw

Bolsover

East Cambridgeshire

Forest Heath

Halton

Ipswich

Leeds

Mansfield

Mid-Suffolk

North East Derbyshire

Newark and Sherwood

St. Edmunsbury

St. Helens

South Cambridgeshire

Suffolk Coastal

Vale Royal

Warrington

Waveney

Wigan

SCHEDULE 2Postcode Areas

Regulation 4(2)

PART I

B37, B39, B46, B47, B49, B50, B76 to B79 and B93 to B95

BA3 to BA11, BA16, BA20 to BA22, BA24 and BA26 to BA28

CM0 to CM9

CV3, CV4, CV7 to CV12, CV21 to CV23, CV31 to CV35 and CV36 to CV39 DT9

E4, E10, E11, E17 and E18

EX15 and EX16

G78

GL50 and GL55

GL56

HD1 and HD5 to HD8

HP1, HP4 to HP23 and HP27

HX1 and HX7

IG1 to IG11

KA28 to KA30

LE10

LE17

LU6 and LU7

MK1 to MK19, MK43 and MK46

NN6, NN11 and NN13

NP1

NP4

NP5

NP6

NP7

NP9, NP16, NP20, NP25, NP26 and NP44

OL14

OX5 to OX7, OX9 and OX15

OX17

PA1 to PA17 and PA20 to PA27

RM6

RM8

RG9

SL0 to SL4 and SL6 to SL9

SS0 to SS7, SS9, SS11 and SS12

SS17

TA1 to TA24

UB9

WD3

WF12 to WF17

WO11

PART II

BD2 to BD4, BD10, BD11, BD16, BD17 and BD20

CB1 and CB5 to CB10

CM11

CO1, CO6 and CO8 to CO11

DE5, DE55 and DE56

DN22

HG3 and HG5

IP2 to IP20, IP22 to IP24 and IP27 to IP33

LS1 to LS15 (except Bramhope), LS16, LS17, LS19, LS21, LS22, LS27 and LS28

NG14 to NG23 and NG25

NR10, NR14, NR15 and NR31 to NR35

S44, S45 and S80

WA1 to WA8 and WA11 to WA13

WF3, WF6, WF10 and WF11

YO8, YO23 and YO26

SCHEDULE 3 Consequential Amendments

Regulation 18

1.

(1)

The Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996 M1 shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this paragraph.

(2)

In regulation 23 (attendance) for the words “Secretary of State" there shall be substituted the words “ employment officer ”.

(3)

In regulation 24 (provision of information and evidence), at the end there shall be added the following paragraph —

“(11)

In this regulation, references to the “Secretary of State" include a reference to persons designated as employment officers by an Order made by the Secretary of State under section 8(3) of the Jobseekers Act 1995 M2.”.

2.

F1(1)

The Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987 M3 shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this paragraph.

(2)

In regulation 2(1) (interpretation) after the entry relating to “refugee" there shall be inserted the following entry —

““relevant authority" means a person within section 72(2) of the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999 M4;”.

(3)

In each of the provisions specified in sub-paragraph (4) below, for the words “Secretary of State" there shall be substituted the words “ employment officer ”.

(4)

Those provisions are —

(a)

regulation 4(6) M5 (making a claim for benefit); and

(b)

regulation 6(4A) M6 (date of claim).

(5)

In regulation 7(1), after the words “Secretary of State" in the first place where they occur, there shall be inserted the words “ or, in a case where regulation 4A applies, the relevant authority ”.

(6)

In regulation 19(5)(d) (time for claiming benefit) M7, after the word “Employment" there shall be inserted the words “ or in a case to which regulation 4A applies, a representative of a relevant authority ”.

(7)

In paragraph 2A(2)(b) of Schedule 7 M8 after the words “associated office" there shall be inserted the words “ or any office to which a claim may be made in accordance with regulation 4A(1) ”.

(8)

In regulation 32 (information to be given when obtaining benefit), after paragraph (1), there shall be inserted the following paragraph —

“(1A)

In the case of a person who made a claim for benefit in accordance with regulation 4A(1), a change of circumstances may be notified to a relevant authority at any office to which the claim for benefit could be made in accordance with that provision.”.