Regulation 2 Circumstances in which a person is to be treated as available for employment

In regulation 14(1) of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations^f1 (circumstances in which a person is to be treated as available), after sub-paragraph (m) there shall be added the following sub-paragraph—

“(n)

if—

(i)

he is available for employment, or is treated as such, on the day he makes his claim for a jobseeker’s allowance, and

(ii)

the Department has directed that the prescribed time for claiming a jobseeker’s allowance be extended under regulation 19(6) of the Claims and Payments Regulations^f2 (time for claiming benefit) where the circumstances specified in regulation 19(7)(d) of those Regulations applied in relation to an entitlement to incapacity benefit or an entitlement to income support by virtue of paragraph 7 of Schedule 1B to the Income Support Regulations^f3 (persons incapable of work),

for the period of that extension.”