1999 No. 530
The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Amendment) Regulations 1999
Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
The Secretary of State for Education and Employment, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 8(2) of the Jobseekers Act 19951, and after agreement by the Social Security Advisory Committee that proposals in respect of these Regulations should not be referred to it2, hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation and commencement1
These Regulations may be cited as the Jobseeker’s Allowance (Amendment) Regulations 1999 and shall come into force on 25th March 1999.
Entitlement to a jobseeker’s allowance ceasing on a failure to comply2
For regulation 25(1)(b)(i) of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 19963 there shall be substituted the following–
i
the claimant attends on the day specified in a notice under regulation 23 but fails to attend at the time specified in that notice (other than a notice requiring attendance under an employment programme or a training scheme), and the Secretary of State has informed the claimant in writing that a failure to attend, on the next occasion on which he is required to attend, at the time specified in such a notice may result in his entitlement to a jobseeker’s allowance ceasing, and
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Education and Employment
(This note is not part of the Regulations)