Amendment of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996
8.—(1) In the case of a person who is selected to participate in an employment zone programme with a particular employment zone contractor under regulation 3 or 4 or who is required to attend and complete an employment zone programme under regulation 5, regulation 75(1)(a)(iii) of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996 shall apply with the addition of the words “, or the Employment Zones (Allocation to Contractors) Pilot Regulations 2006” after the words “the Social Security (Working Neighbourhoods) Regulations 2004”(1).
(2) Where the Secretary of State is satisfied that a person to whom paragraph (1) would otherwise apply is neither—
(a)ordinarily resident within an employment zone, nor
(b)someone whose address for payment of his jobseeker’s allowance is within an employment zone,
then any relevant sanction incurred by that person shall end and these Regulations shall cease to apply.
(3) However, where that person asks to complete an employment zone programme in which he is participating, these Regulations, other than paragraph (1) of this regulation, shall continue to apply.
(4) In paragraph (2) “relevant sanction” means a sanction incurred by that person under section 19 or 20A(2) of the 1995 Act as a result of his refusing or failing to participate in, or giving up a place on an employment zone programme as specified in regulation 75(1)(a)(iii) of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996 (as modified by paragraph (1)).
S.I. 1996/207. The definition of an employment zone in regulation 75(1)(a)(iii) of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996 was inserted by regulation 6 of the Employment Zones Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/2438) and amended by the Social Security (Working Neighbourhoods) Regulations 2004 (S.I. 2004/959).
Section 20A was inserted by section 59 of and Schedule 7 to the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999.