The National Treatment Agency (Abolition) and the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2013

The Jobseeker's Allowance Regulations 1996 U.K.

27.—(1) The Jobseeker's Allowance Regulations 1996 M1 are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 1(3) (interpretation), in the definition of “service user group”, after paragraph (f) insert—

“(fa) the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence in consequence of a function under Part 8 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012,

(fb) a clinical commissioning group in consequence of a function under section 14Z2 of the National Health Service Act 2006,

(fc) the National Health Service Commissioning Board in consequence of a function under section 13Q of the National Health Service Act 2006,”.

(3) In paragraph 28 of Schedule 7 (sums to be disregarded in the calculation of income other than earnings)—

(a) after sub-paragraph (d) insert—

“(da) a clinical commissioning group established under section 14D of National Health Service Act 2006;

(db) the National Health Service Commissioning Board; or”, and

(b) omit sub-paragraph (e) (together with the “or” following it).

Marginal Citations

M1 S.I. 1996/207. Relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1998/563, S.I. 2001/859 and S.I. 2008/3157.