{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-jobseekers-allowance-work-for-your-benefit-pilot-scheme-regulations-2010/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-jobseekers-allowance-work-for-your-benefit-pilot-scheme-regulations-2010/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2010/9780111493496",
  "legislation_title": "The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Work for Your Benefit Pilot Scheme) Regulations 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-jobseekers-allowance-work-for-your-benefit-pilot-scheme-regulations-2010",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Requirement to participate in the Scheme and notification",
  "text": "(1) Subject to regulation 6, a claimant (“C”) selected in accordance with regulation 3 or 4 is required to participate in the Scheme where C is given or sent a notice in writing by an officer of the Secretary of State stating that C is required to do so.\n(2) Subject to regulation 6, C is required to participate in the Scheme for a total of 26 weeks, beginning with the day specified in the notice.\n(3) The notice must specify that if C fails to participate in the Scheme, C’s jobseeker’s allowance could cease to be payable or could be payable at a lower rate.\n(4) Where C participated in the Scheme on a previous occasion for less than 26 weeks, C is to be treated as having completed so much of the Scheme as is equal to the period of C’s previous participation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2010/9780111493496/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:55:21.942061+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}