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1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the New Deal (Miscellaneous Provisions) Order 2001 and shall come into force on 9th April 2001.
(2) In this Order—
“facilities” means facilities provided for the participant in pursuance of the Intensive Activity Period or the Intensive Activity Period for 50 plus;
“the Intensive Activity Period” means the arrangements known by that name and made under section 2 of the 1973 Act for which only persons who are aged 25 years or over and less than 50 years on the day of entry are eligible and which are designed to help participants to obtain work or to improve their prospects of obtaining work;
“the Intensive Activity Period for 50 plus” means the arrangements known by that name and made under section 2 of the 1973 Act for which only persons who are aged 50 years or over on the day of entry are eligible and which are designed to help participants to obtain work or to improve their prospects of obtaining work;
“training allowance” means a payment made directly by the Secretary of State to a participant in the Intensive Activity Period or the Intensive Activity Period for 50 plus in connection with his participation.
2.—(1) The provisions of this article apply for the purposes of—
(a)Part I of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992(1),
(b)The Jobseekers Act 1995(2), and
(c)The subordinate legislation specified in the Schedule to this Order.
(2) If, for any period or periods commencing with or falling after the date on which this Order comes into force, during which a person is participating in the Intensive Activity Period or the Intensive Activity Period for 50 plus, that person receives, or is eligible to receive, a training allowance, he is to be treated for that period or those periods and in respect of his participation as not being employed but as participating in arrangements for training under section 2 of the 1973 Act; and accordingly, subject to paragraph (3), any payment made to such a person during that period or these periods in connection with his use of facilities shall be treated in the same manner as a payment of training allowance made in respect of such training.
(3) Paragraph (2) shall not apply in respect of any trading payment made to a person receiving assistance in pursuing self-employed earner’s employment whilst participating in the Intensive Activity Period or the Intensive Activity Period for 50 plus.
Minister of State,
Department for Education and Employment
Tessa Jowell
13th March 2001
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