The Jobseeker’s Allowance Amendment (New Deal) Regulations 1999

• Citation: S.I. 1999/3083
• Sections: 2

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Jobseeker’s Allowance Amendment (New Deal) Regulations 1999 and shall come into force on the fourteenth day after the day on which they are made.

Section 2 Further circumstances in which a person is to be treated as available for employment

(1) Regulation 17A(7) of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996 (further circumstances in which a person is to be treated as available: full-time students participating in a qualifying course) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2) For the definition of “benefit” there shall be substituted the following definition–

“benefit” means

income support, unemployment benefit, a jobseeker’s allowance or any earnings credited to a person in accordance with regulation 8A or 9A of the Social Security (Credits) Regulations 1975 or which would be credited to a person in accordance with paragraph (1) of that regulation 9A but are not so credited by reason only of the fact that no further earnings are in his case required for the purpose mentioned in that paragraph; or

any earnings credited to a person for unemployment in accordance with regulation 9 of the Social Security (Credits) Regulations 1975 as it applied before 7th October 1996 and

(3) In sub-paragraph (a) of the definition of “receiving benefit”, after the words “Part I of the Act” there shall be inserted the words “or in accordance with regulation 9A of the Social Security (Credits) Regulations 1975”.