The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2001

Common amendments

2.  In regulation 2(1) of each of the Council Tax Benefit Regulations, the Housing Benefit Regulations and the Income Support Regulations and in regulation 1(3) of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations (interpretation)—

(a) in paragraph (b) of the definition of “self-employment route”(1), for the words “an employment zone programme” there shall be substituted the following—

“—

(i) an employment zone programme;

(ii) a course of training or instruction funded by or on behalf of the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, the National Assembly for Wales, the Scottish Enterprise or Highlands and Islands Enterprise”;

(b) in the definition of “training allowance”(2)—

(i) at the end of paragraph (a), there shall be added the words “, the Learning and Skills Council for England(3) or the National Assembly for Wales”;

(ii) at the end of paragraph (c), there shall be added the words “or the National Assembly for Wales”.

(1)

The definition of “self-employment route” was inserted in each case by S.I. 2000/2910.

(2)

The definition of “training allowance” was amended, in the Income Support Regulations, by S.I. 1991/236 and 387, 1989/1323 and 1995/2986 and in the Housing Benefit Regulations, by S.I. 1991/387 and 1992/432.

(3)

The Council was established by section 1 of the Learning and Skills Act 2000 (c. 21).