{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-act-1995/section-31",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-act-1995/section-31.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1995/18",
  "legislation_title": "Jobseekers Act 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-act-1995",
  "path": "section/31",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": "Termination of awards.",
  "text": "(1) Regulations may make provision allowing, in prescribed circumstances, an award of income support to be brought to an end by the Secretary of State where the person to whom it was made, or where he is a member of a couple his partner or the couple, will be entitled to a jobseeker’s allowance if the award is brought to an end.\n(2) Regulations may make provision allowing, in prescribed circumstances, an award of a jobseeker’s allowance to be brought to an end by the Secretary of State where the person to whom it was made, or where he is a member of a couple his partner, or where the award was made to a couple a member of the couple, will be entitled to income support if the award is brought to an end.\n(3) In this section “partner” means the other member of the couple concerned.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 31(1)(2) substituted (18.10.1999 for specified purposes and otherwiseprosp.) by 1998 c. 14, ss. 86(1), 87(2), Sch. 7 para. 143; S.I. 1999/2860, art. 2(c), Sch. 1 (subject to transitional provisions in Schs. 16-18) (as amended (25.11.1999) by S.I. 1999/3178, art. 3(20), Sch. 20 paras. 1(a), 2(a))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 31(1)(2) substituted (5.12.2005) by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33), ss. 254(1), 263(8)(d), Sch. 24 para. 123; S.I. 2005/3175, art. 2(1), Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 31(1) inserted (19.3.2001) by 1999 c. 30, s. 59, Sch. 7 para. 14(2); S.I. 2000/2958, art. 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 31(2) inserted (19.3.2001) by 1999 c. 30, s. 59, Sch. 7 para. 14(3); S.I. 2000/2958, art. 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 31 wholly in force at 7.10.1996; s. 31 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 41(2); s. 31 in force (12.12.1995) for the purpose of authorising the making of regulations by S.I. 1995/3228, art. 2(b), Sch.; s. 31 in force (7.10.1996) in so far as not already in force by S.I. 1996/2208, art. 2(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2009/24",
      "affecting_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2009"
    },
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "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/section/31",
    "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."
}