Regulation 3 Circumstances in which a person is to be treated as available for employment

In regulation 14(1) of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations, after sub-paragraph (n) there shall be added the following sub-paragraph—

“(o)

if

(i)

he is available for employment, or is treated as such, on the day he makes his claim for a jobseeker’s allowance; and

(ii)

the Secretary of State has directed that the prescribed time for claiming a jobseeker’s allowance be extended under regulation 19(6) of the Claims and Payments Regulations^f1 where the circumstances specified in regulation 19(7)(d) of those Regulations applied in relation to an entitlement to incapacity benefit or an entitlement to income support by virtue of paragraph 7 of Schedule 1B to the Income Support Regulations^f2,

for the period of that extension.”