The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1997

• Citation: S.I. 1997/2677
• Sections: 3

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Jobseeker’s Allowance (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 1st December 1997.

Section 2 Amendment of regulation 47A of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996

In regulation 47A of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996 (jobseeking periods: periods of interruption of employment)—

(a) immediately before paragraph (a) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

(za) where a linked period commenced before 7th October 1996 and is still current on 1st December 1997, any days of unemployment which form part of a period of interruption of employment where the last day of unemployment in that period of interruption of employment was no more than 8 weeks before the date upon which that linked period commenced;

(b) at the end, there shall be added the words “and, for the purposes of paragraph (za), a day shall be treated as being, or not being, a day of unemployment in accordance with section 25A of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 and with any regulations made under that section, as in force on 6th October 1996”.

Section 3 Amendment of regulation 8 of the Jobseeker’s Allowance (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 1996

In regulation 8 of the Jobseeker’s Allowance (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 1996 (claims for entitlement to a jobseeker’s allowance), in paragraph (4)(a), after the words “312 days” there shall be inserted the words “but only in so far as this sub-paragraph has effect in the case of any person in respect of any date falling before 1st December 1997”.