Regulation 2 Circumstances in which a person is treated as entitled to a jobseeker’s allowance for a continuous period of 2 years immediately before his employment

Where this regulation applies, a person who would not otherwise satisfy the relevant condition shall be treated as satisfying that condition.

This regulation applies where a person would have satisfied the relevant condition had the reference to “two years" been a reference to a period of two years within the meaning of regulation 1(2).

This regulation applies where a person is entitled to a jobseeker’s allowance for periods (in this regulation referred to as jobseeker’s allowance periods) separated by breaking periods; and the jobseeker’s allowance periods excluding the intervening breaking periods form in aggregate a period of not less than two years.

This regulation applies where–

This regulation applies where, but for a breaking period occurring immediately after a jobseeker’s allowance period, or an additional period a person would have satisfied the relevant condition.

For the purposes of paragraph (4)(b) in determining whether a person has been entitled to a qualifying benefit for any period any benefit week on any day of which that person was entitled to unemployment benefit shall be treated as a period throughout which that person was entitled to a qualifying benefit.

For the purposes of paragraph (4)(b) a person is a person of a specified description if he is–

For the purposes of paragraph (4)(c) in determining whether there has been a continuous period of not less than two years where a person has jobseeker’s allowance periods or additional periods separated by breaking periods, the jobseeker’s allowance periods and the additional periods shall be aggregated together and treated as a single period and the intervening breaking periods shall be excluded in the computation of that single period.

In this regulation “the relevant condition" means the condition in subsection (1) of section 27 of the Jobseekers Act.