# The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Sanctions) (Amendment) Regulations 2012, Regulation 3: Amendment of Part IX of the JSA Regulations (Hardship)


(1) Part IX of the JSA Regulations (hardship) is amended as follows.
(2) Regulation 140 (meaning of “person in hardship”) is amended as follows—
(a) in sub-paragraph (f)(i) of paragraph (1), omit “either” and for the words from “or because” to the end of the sub-paragraph, substitute “or the award is reduced in accordance with section 19 or 19A or regulation 69B”;
(b) in paragraph (2), omit “, (4A), (4B) or (4C)”; and
(c) omit paragraphs (4A), (4B) and 4(C).
(3) Regulation 140A (period when a person is not a person in hardship) is revoked.
(4) In paragraph (6) of regulation 141 (circumstances in which an income-based jobseeker’s allowance is payable to a person in hardship) for the words from “regulations” to “to him”, substitute “his award of jobseeker’s allowance has been reduced in accordance with section 19 or 19A or regulation 69B”.
(5) In paragraph (5) of regulation 142 (further circumstances in which an income-based jobseeker’s allowance is payable to a person in hardship)—
(a) for the words from “section 19” to “to him”, substitute “his award of jobseeker’s allowance has been reduced in accordance with section 19 or 19A or regulation 69B”; and
(b) in sub-paragraph (a), for “section 19” substitute “the reduction”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2012/9780111526408/regulation/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-jobseekers-allowance-sanctions-amendment-regulations-2012/regulation-3
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