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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employers-contributions-re-imbursement-regulations-1996/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employers-contributions-re-imbursement-regulations-1996/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/195",
  "legislation_title": "The Employer’s Contributions Re-imbursement Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employers-contributions-re-imbursement-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Prescribed description of a person for the purposes of section 27(2)(c) of the Jobseekers Act",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of section 27(2)(c) of the Jobseekers Act a person falls within a prescribed description of person if–\n(a) he is in receipt of a qualifying benefit for a continuous period of not less than two years; and\n(b) continuously for the whole of that period he satisfied any one or more of the following conditions–\n(i) he is undergoing a course of training for which a training allowance is payable;\n(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;\n(iii) he is a carer;\n(iv) he is a lone parent.\n(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.\n(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.\n(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).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/195/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:53:32.747405+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."
}