{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-amendment-regulations-2012/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-amendment-regulations-2012/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/1135",
  "legislation_title": "The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Amendment) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-amendment-regulations-2012",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996 (‘the JSA Regulations’).\nRegulation 2(2) amends regulation 72 of the JSA Regulations so that, irrespective of their period of entitlement to a jobseeker’s allowance, a claimant will not generally be able to show good cause for failing to carry out a jobseeker’s direction or to apply for or accept certain types of employment if the reason for the failure relates to the time it would take, or normally take, for them to travel for those purposes by a route and means appropriate to their circumstances and to the employment, or to the carrying out of the jobseeker’s direction, where that time is less than one hour and thirty minutes.\nA full impact assessment has not been published for this instrument as it has no impact on the private sector or civil society organisations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/1135/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:33:11.151265+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."
}