{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-employment-skills-and-enterprise-scheme-regulations-2011/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-employment-skills-and-enterprise-scheme-regulations-2011/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2011/917",
  "legislation_title": "The Jobseeker's Allowance (Employment, Skills and Enterprise Scheme) Regulations 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-employment-skills-and-enterprise-scheme-regulations-2011",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Circumstances in which requirement to participate in the Scheme is suspended or ceases to apply",
  "text": "(1) Where a claimant (“C”) is—\n(a) subject to a requirement to participate in the Scheme, and\n(b) while C is subject to such a requirement, the Jobseeker's Allowance Regulations apply so that C is not required to meet the jobseeking conditions\nC's requirement to participate in the Scheme is suspended for the period during which C is not required to meet the jobseeking conditions.\n(2) A requirement to participate in the Scheme ceases to apply to a claimant (“C”) if—\n(a) the Secretary of State gives C notice in writing that C is no longer required to participate in the Scheme, or\n(b) C's award of jobseeker's allowance terminates,\nwhichever is earlier.\n(3) Where paragraph (2)(a) applies, the requirement ceases to apply on the day specified in the notice.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "See section 17A(10) of the Act for the meaning of the “jobseeking conditions”."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/917/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:11:06.437909+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."
}