This Statutory Instrument has been made partly in consequence of a defect in S.I. 2000/721 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.
2000 No. 1279
SOCIAL SECURITY
The Employment Zones (Amendment) Regulations 2000
Made 10th May 2000
Laid before Parliament 12th May 2000
Coming into force 5th June 2000

The Secretary of State for Education and Employment, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 60 of the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999 hereby makes the following Regulations:
1999 c. 30.
These regulations are made within 6 months of the coming into force of section 60 of the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999 and accordingly, by reason of section 173(5)(a) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 (1992 c. 5), reference to the Social Security Advisory Committee by the Secretary of State of his proposal to make the regulations is not required notwithstanding the provisions contained in Sections 170 and 172 of that Act, as amended by paragraph 81(a) of Schedule 12 of the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999.

1 Commencement and citation
These regulations may be cited as the Employment Zones (Amendment) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on the 5th June 2000.

2 Amendment of the Employment Zones Regulations 2000
The Employment Zones Regulations 2000 shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this regulation.
1 In regulation 3 (Areas designated as employment zones) for the words “ wards and electoral divisions” there shall be substituted the words “ districts, London boroughs, counties and county boroughs” and there shall be added at the end of the regulation the words “as the boundaries to those districts, London boroughs, counties and county boroughs stand on the 5th June 2000”.
2 For the schedule to the regulations there shall be substituted the schedule hereto.
S.I. 2000/721.
Tessa Jowell Minister of State, Department for Education and Employment 10th May 2000
SCHEDULE
Employment Zone	districts, London boroughs, counties and county boroughs
Birmingham	The metropolitan district of Birmingham.
Brent	The London borough of Brent.
Brighton and Hove	The non-metropolitan district of Brighton and the non-metropolitan district of Hove.
Doncaster	The metropolitan district of Doncaster.
Glasgow	The metropolitan district of Glasgow.
Haringey	The London borough of Haringey.
Liverpool and Sefton	The metropolitan district of Liverpool and the metropolitan district of Sefton.
Merthyr Tydfil, Caerphilly and Blaenau Gwent	The county borough of Merthyr Tydfil, the county borough of Caerphilly and the county borough of Blaenau Gwent.
Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland	The non-metropolitan district of Middlesbrough and the non-metropolitan district of Redcar and Cleveland.
Newham	The London borough of Newham.
North West Wales	The county borough of Conwy, the county of Denbighshire, the county of Anglesey, the county borough of Wrexham and the county of Caernarfonshire and Merionethshire.
Nottingham	The non-metropolitan district of Nottingham.
Plymouth	The non-metropolitan district of Plymouth.
Southwark	The London borough of Southwark.
Tower Hamlets	The London borough of Tower Hamlets.

(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These regulations amend the Employment Zones Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/721) by changing the areas designated as employment zones from areas based on wards and electoral divisions to larger areas based on local authority districts. They also make clear that the boundaries of the zones correspond to the boundaries of the districts as they stand at the date these amending regulations are made and hence any boundary changes made in respect of the districts will not have the effect of changing the boundaries of the employment zones.
Had the areas of the zones not been changed an amendment to the principal Regulations would, in any event, have been required because of errors in the schedule.