{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-act-1995/section-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-act-1995/section-12.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1995/18",
  "legislation_title": "Jobseekers Act 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-act-1995",
  "path": "section/12",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Income and capital: general.",
  "text": "(1) In relation to a claim for a jobseeker’s allowance, the income and capital of a person shall be calculated or estimated in such manner as may be prescribed.\n(2) A person’s income in respect of a week shall be calculated in accordance with prescribed rules.\n(3) The rules may provide for the calculation to be made by reference to an average over a period (which need not include the week concerned).\n(4) Circumstances may be prescribed in which—\n(a) a person is treated as possessing capital or income which he does not possess;\n(b) capital or income which a person does possess is to be disregarded;\n(c) income is to be treated as capital;\n(d) capital is to be treated as income.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 12 wholly in force at 7.10.1996; s. 12 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 41(2); s. 12 in force (12.12.1995) for the purpose of authorising the making of regulations by S.I. 1995/3228, art. 2(b), Sch.; s. 12 in force (7.10.1996) in so far as not already in force by S.I. 1996/2208, art. 2(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1995/18/section/12",
    "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."
}