Amendment of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996
5.—(1) The Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996(1) are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 1(3)—
(a)in the definition of “full-time course of advanced education”—
(i)in paragraphs (a) and (b) (except paragraph (b)(i)) for “Learning and Skills Council for England” substitute “Young People’s Learning Agency for England, the Chief Executive of Skills Funding” in both places where those words occur;
(ii)for paragraph (b)(i) substitute—
“(i)in the case of a course funded by the Young People’s Learning Agency for England or the Chief Executive of Skills Funding, in the student’s learning agreement signed on behalf of the establishment which is funded by either of those bodies for the delivery of that course; or”
(b)in the definition of “full-time student”—
(i)in paragraphs (b)(i) and (b)(ii) (except paragraph b(ii)(aa)) for “Learning and Skills Council for England” substitute “Young People’s Learning Agency for England, the Chief Executive of Skills Funding” in both places where those words occur;
(ii)for paragraph (b)(ii)(aa) substitute—
“(aa)in the case of a course funded by the Young People’s Learning Agency for England or the Chief Executive of Skills Funding, in the student’s learning agreement signed on behalf of the establishment which is funded by either of those bodies for the delivery of that course; or,”;
(c)in paragraph (a) of the definition of “training allowance” for “Learning and Skills Council for England” substitute “Young People’s Learning Agency for England, the Chief Executive of Skills Funding”.
(3) In regulation 11(3) for “secured in England and Wales by the Learning and Skills Council for England or by the Welsh Ministers” substitute “secured in England by the Young People’s Learning Agency for England or Chief Executive of Skills Funding and in Wales by the Welsh Ministers”.
(4) In regulation 57(1) in the definition of “training” for “Learning and Skills Council for England” substitute “Young People’s Learning Agency for England, the Chief Executive of Skills Funding”.
(5) In regulations 75(1)(b)(i), 170(2) and paragraph 16 of Schedule A1 for “Learning and Skills Council for England” in each place where those words occur substitute “Young People’s Learning Agency for England, the Chief Executive of Skills Funding”.
(6) In regulation 130 (interpretation), in paragraph (d) of the definition of “access funds”, for “Learning and Skills Council for England under sections 5, 6 and 9 of the Learning and Skills Act 2000” substitute “Young People’s Learning Agency for England under sections 61 and 62 of the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 or the Chief Executive of Skills Funding under sections 100 and 101 of that Act”.
S.I. 1996/207; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2000/1922, 2000/1978, 2001/652, 2001/1434 and 2001/2319.