New Deal (Miscellaneous Provisions) Order 2001

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order provides that, for the purposes of Part I of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (c. 4) and the Jobseekers Act 1995 (c. 18) and of the subordinate legislation specified in the Schedule to the Order, a person using facilities provided in pursuance of the employment programme known as “the Intensive Activity Period” or “the Intensive Activity Period for 50 plus” and receiving or entitled to receive from the Secretary of State a training allowance in connection with the use of those facilities shall be treated not as being employed but as participating in arrangements for training under section 2 of the Employment and Training Act 1973 (c. 50). Any payment made to such a person in connection with his use of those facilities, other than a trading payment made to a person receiving assistance in pursuing self-employed earner’s employment, shall be treated as a payment of training allowance made in respect of such training.