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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-extended-period-of-sickness-amendment-regulations-2016/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2016/502",
  "legislation_title": "The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Extended Period of Sickness) Amendment Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-extended-period-of-sickness-amendment-regulations-2016",
  "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 1996 Regulations”) and the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 2013 (“the 2013 Regulations”) concerning the circumstances in which a claimant is treated as capable of work (or as not having limited capability for work) on account of a period of disease or disablement.\nRegulation 2(2) amends regulation 55 of the 1996 Regulations by inserting a new paragraph which provides that where a claimant satisfies the requirements for a short period of sickness, but goes on to satisfy the requirements for an extended period of sickness under regulation 55ZA of the 1996 Regulations in respect of the same period of sickness, the short period of sickness under regulation 55 is disregarded for the purpose of calculating the maximum number of short periods of sickness which a person may have under regulation 55(3).\nRegulation 2(3) amends regulation 55ZA of the 1996 Regulations. It ensures that regulation 55ZA continues to apply where a claimant’s original health condition changes (the period of sickness or disablement must still be continuous, in accordance with paragraph (4) of regulation 55ZA). It also ensures that where a period of sickness is initially expected to last for two weeks or less, but ends up lasting for more than two weeks, the claimant is required to provide the same supporting medical evidence as someone who expected to be unable to work for longer than two weeks at the outset.\nRegulation 3 makes equivalent amendments to the 2013 Regulations.\nAn impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as it has no impact on business and only a negligible impact on civil society organisations and the public sector.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/502/note",
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  "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."
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