{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-act-1995/schedule-1/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-act-1995/schedule-1/paragraph-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1995/18",
  "legislation_title": "Jobseekers Act 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-act-1995",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Except in prescribed circumstances, a person is not entitled to a jobseeker’s allowance in respect of a prescribed number of days at the beginning of a jobseeking period.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 4 excluded (7.10.1996) by S.I. 1996/207, reg. 46(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 4 excluded (8.4.2013 for specified purposes, 29.4.2013 in so far as not already in force) by The Universal Credit, Personal Independence Payment, Jobseekers Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/381), regs. 1(2), 48(5) (with reg. 1(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 4 excluded (29.4.2013) by The Jobseekers Allowance Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/378), regs. 1(2), 36 (with reg. 1(3))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2009/24",
      "affecting_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2009"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2012/5",
      "affecting_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2012"
    },
    {
      "type": "amendment to earlier affecting provision 2009 c. 24 s. 29(1)",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2012/5",
      "affecting_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2012"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1995/18/schedule/1/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:33:11.946858+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."
}