{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-support-general-regulations-1987/regulation-3A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-support-general-regulations-1987/regulation-3A.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1967",
  "legislation_title": "The Income Support (General) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-support-general-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/3A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3A",
  "heading": "Permitted period",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of regulation 17(6), ... paragraph 7(6) of Schedule 3A, paragraph 6(3) of Schedule 3B and paragraphs 4 and 6 of Schedule 8 (applicable amounts, mortgage interest, protected sums and earnings to be disregarded), where a claimant has ceased to be entitled to income support–\n(a) because he or his partner becomes engaged in remunerative work the permitted period, ... shall be twelve weeks; or\n(b) for any other reason, the permitted period shall be eight weeks.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 3A inserted (9.10.1989) by The Income Support (General) Amendment No. 3 Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/1678), regs. 1(1)(a), 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3A(1) omitted (12.12.1995) by virtue of The Social Security (Income Support, Claims and Payments and Adjudication) Amendment Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/2927), regs. 1(1), 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3A(1)(a) omitted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Income Support (General) (Jobseeker’s Allowance Consequential Amendments) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/206), regs. 1(1), 3(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 3A(2) omitted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Income Support (General) (Jobseeker’s Allowance Consequential Amendments) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/206), regs. 1(1), 3(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Reg. 3A(3) omitted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Income Support (General) (Jobseeker’s Allowance Consequential Amendments) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/206), regs. 1(1), 3(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Reg. 3A modified (7.10.1996) by The Jobseeker's Allowance Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/207), regs. 1(2), 87(7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Reg. 3A applied (with modifications) (22.10.2012) by S.I. 1996/207, reg. 87(7) (as amended by The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Sanctions) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/2568), regs. 1(1), 5(19))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1967/regulation/3A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:17:57.034883+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."
}