Regulation 4 Prescribed description of a person for the purposes of section 27(2)(c) of the Jobseekers Act

(1)

For the purposes of section 27(2)(c) of the Jobseekers Act a person falls within a prescribed description of person if–

(a)

he is in receipt of a qualifying benefit for a continuous period of not less than two years; and

(b)

continuously for the whole of that period he satisfied any one or more of the following conditions–

(i)

he is undergoing a course of training for which a training allowance is payable;

(ii)

he is available or treated as available for employment under regulation 9 of the Income Support Regulations or under regulations made under section 25A(1)(a) of the Benefits Act;

(iii)

he is a carer;

(iv)

he is a lone parent.

(2)

For the purposes of paragraph (1)(a) 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 he was entitled to a qualifying benefit.

(3)

For the purposes of paragraph (1) in determining whether there has been a continuous period of not less than two years, where a person has periods throughout which he is a qualifying person separated by breaking periods the periods throughout which the person is a qualifying person 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.

(4)

In this regulation “qualifying person" means a person who is entitled to a qualifying benefit and is of a description specified in paragraph (1).