Amendment of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 19963.

In regulation 1(3) of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 19969 (citation, commencement and interpretation) for the definition of “benefit week” substitute—

““benefit week” means—

(a)

a period of 7 days ending with a day determined in accordance with paragraph (b) unless, in any particular case or class of case, the Secretary of State arranges otherwise;

(b)

the day specified for the purposes of paragraph (a) is the day in column (2) which corresponds to the series of numbers in column (1) which includes the last 2 digits of the person’s national insurance number—

(1)

(2)

00 to 19

Monday

20 to 39

Tuesday

40 to 59

Wednesday

60 to 79

Thursday

80 to 99

Friday;”.