Regulation 6 Circumstances in which requirement to participate in the Scheme does not apply or ceases to apply

(1)

A claimant who is not (apart from these Regulations) required to meet the jobseeking conditions is not required to participate in the Scheme^f1.

(2)

A requirement to participate in the Scheme ceases to apply to a person (“P”) where—

(a)

the Secretary of State is satisfied that P no longer resides in a pilot area or the address for payment of P’s jobseeker’s allowance is no longer within such an area;

(b)

P ceases to be entitled to a jobseeker’s allowance on or after the first day on which P was required to participate in the Scheme and 13 or more weeks have elapsed beginning with the relevant day applicable in P’s case and ending with the day on which P again becomes entitled to a jobseeker’s allowance; or

(c)

the Secretary of State decides for other reasons that P is no longer required to participate in the Scheme.

(3)

The Secretary of State must notify P in writing that P is no longer required to participate in the Scheme.

(4)

The requirement ceases to apply on the day specified by the Secretary of State in the notification.

(5)

In paragraph (2), the “relevant day” means—

(a)

the last day on which P participated in the Scheme, or

(b)

if P failed to participate in the Scheme, the first day on which P was due to participate.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: See section 17A(10) of the Act for the meaning of the “jobseeking conditions”.