The Employment Zones (Allocation to Contractors) Pilot Regulations 2006

Transitional Arrangements

9.—(1) This regulation applies to a claimant—

(a) who—

(i) was selected to participate in an employment zone programme under regulation 3 or 4 of the Employment Zones (Allocation to Contractors) Pilot Regulations 2005(1) before the 24th April 2006; or

(ii) was required by virtue of regulation 8 of those Regulations, to participate in an employment zone programme; and

(b) who has not completed the employment zone programme before those Regulations expired.

(2) The references to regulation 3 or 4 in regulation 6(2) and 8(1) of these Regulations shall be read in relation to a claimant to whom this regulation applies as references to regulation 3 or 4 of the Employment Zones (Allocation to Contractors) Pilot Regulations 2004(2) or, as the case may be, the Employment Zones (Allocation to Contractors) Pilot Regulations 2005.

(3) A claimant to whom this regulation applies shall be treated as completing so much of an employment zone programme for the purposes of regulations 6 and 7 as is equal to the period of his participation in the employment zone programme under the Employment Zones (Allocation to Contractors) Pilot Regulations 2005.

(1)

S.I. 2005/1125. The Regulations expire on 24th April 2006.

(2)

S.I. 2004/934.