# The Income Support (General) Amendment No. 2 Regulations 1989, Note: Explanatory note

Extent: E+W+S

(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations further amend the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 in the following respects—
(a) they prescribe the circumstances in which a person is not required to be actively seeking employment, the circumstances in which a person is, or is not, treated as actively seeking such employment and make supplementary provision in respect of the introduction of the requirement to seek employment actively (regulations 4, 6 and 7);
(b) they remove references to “suitable employment” in consequence of the repeal of the definition of “suitable” in section 20(4) of the Social Security Act 1975 and amend the circumstances in which a claimant is not treated as available for employment on account of restrictions which he has imposed on the employment which he is prepared to accept (regulation 5);
(c) they make new provision for taking into account payments of compensation received on the termination of employment without due notice (regulations 3, 9, 10, 11, 15 and 18), and provides for earnings to be treated as income (regulation 13);
(d) they delete provisions relating to seasonal workers (regulations 8, 12, l4, 16 and 17);
(e) they make provision for certain persons who are undergoing employment training to qualify for income support (regulations 2 and 5).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1323/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/income-support-general-amendment-no-2-regulations-1989/note
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