SCHEDULE 2AMENDMENTS TO THE PRINCIPAL REGULATIONS

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Regulation 155 (modification of section 15(2) of the Act) shall be renumbered regulation 155(1) and—

a

in the renumbered paragraph (1), after the words “income-based jobseeker’s allowance” in the first place where those words occur, there shall be inserted the words “but not a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance”;

b

after the renumbered paragraph (1) there shall be added the following paragraph—

2

In its application to a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance payable for a part-week, section 15(2)(d) shall have effect subject to the following modification—

d

any payment by way of a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance for that period or any part of it which apart from this paragraph would be made to the nominated member for the purposes of section 3B—

i

shall not be made, if the amount of joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance which would be payable for less than a week is equal to or less than the proportion of the prescribed sum appropriate to the number of days in the part-week;

ii

shall be at a rate equal to the difference between the amount which would be payable for a period of less than a week and the prescribed sum where that amount would be more than the prescribed sum.