# The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Regulations.)
These Regulations amend the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 by ensuring that where a linked period commenced before 6th October 1996, any day of unemployment which forms part of a period of interruption of employment shall be treated as a jobseeking period if that period ends within 8 weeks of the commencement of the linked period (regulation 2).
They also amend the Jobseeker’s Allowance (Transitional Provisions) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 so as to provide that in the case of persons to whom unemployment benefit was payable on 6th or 7th April 1996 and where the period of interruption of employment that was current on that date was also current on the relevant day, Article 7(1) of the Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 shall only have effect as if the reference to 182 days were replaced by a reference to 312 days, up until the day before these Regulations come into operation (regulation 3).
These Regulations make in relation to Northern Ireland only provision corresponding to provision contained in Regulations made by the Secretary of State for Social Security in relation to Great Britain and accordingly, by virtue of section 149(3) of, and paragraph 10 of Schedule 5 to, the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c. 8), are not subject to the requirement of section 149(2) of that Act for prior reference to the Social Security Advisory Committee.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/484/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/note
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