The Social Security (Unemployment, Sickness and Invalidity Benefit and Credits) Amendment Regulations 1981

• Citation: S.I. 1981/1501
• Sections: 3

Section 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1) These regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Unemployment, Sickness and Invalidity Benefit and Credits) Amendment Regulations 1981 and shall come into operation on 23rd November 1981.

(2) In these regulations—

“ the Benefit Regulations ” means the Social Security (Unemployment, Sickness and Invalidity Benefit) Regulations 1975 ;

“ the Credits Regulations ” means the Social Security (Credits) Regulations 1975

Section 2 Amendment of regulation 10 of the Benefit Regulations

For regulation 10 of the Benefit Regulations (reckoning of periods of interruption of employment) there is substituted—

Reckoning of periods of interruption of employment

(10)

(1) For the purpose of reckoning periods of interruption of employment, but for that purpose only, a person shall be deemed to be available to be employed in employed earner's employment on any day specified in paragraph (2) and any such day shall be treated as a day of unemployment.

(2) The days specified for the purpose of paragraph (1) are—

(a) any day to which regulation 7(1)(f) (days when a person is attending a training course not to be treated as days of incapacity for work) applies;

(b) any day in respect of which the person concerned is entitled to a supplementary allowance under the Supplementary Benefits Act 1976 if on that day regulation 6(q) of the Supplementary Benefit (Conditions of Entitlement) Regulations 1980 applies to him (persons of 60 and over entitled to supplementary allowance without being required to register for employment).

Section 3 Amendment of regulation 9 of the Credits Regulations

The following amendments are made to regulation 9 of the Credits Regulations (credits for unemployment or incapacity for work)—

(a) at the end of paragraph (2)(b) there is added “; or” and after that sub-paragraph there is inserted the following new sub-paragraph—

(c) a week for any part of which the person concerned is entitled to a supplementary allowance under the Supplementary Benefits Act 1976 if for that period regulation 6(q) of the Supplementary Benefit (Conditions of Entitlement) Regulations 1980 applies to him (persons of 60 and over entitled to supplementary allowance without being required to register for employment).

(b) in paragraph (9), after sub-paragraph (c) there is inserted the following new sub-paragraph—

(cc) for the purposes of sub-paragraph (c) a person shall be treated as having claimed unemployment benefit for any week if he was entitled to a credit for that week by virtue of paragraph (2)(c);