Explanatory note

These Regulations establish a pilot scheme under the Jobseekers Act 1995. The scheme relates to persons who claim jobseeker’s allowance and have been receiving benefit for at least two years and attending an office of the Department for Education and Employment specified in the Schedule.

Regulation 4 provides for any person to whom the Regulations apply who is not receiving a training allowance to be treated as available for employment for as long as he is participating in the Contract for Work programme.

Regulation 5 provides for Contract for Work to be an employment programme for the purposes of section 19 of the Jobseekers Act (sanctions). Regulation 6 adds to the list of circumstances which are to be regarded as good cause for the purposes of that section.

These Regulations do not impose a charge on business.