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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-homeless-claimants-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2014/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2014/192",
  "legislation_title": "The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Homeless Claimants) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-homeless-claimants-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2014",
  "path": "note",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the provisions in the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 which require claimants to be treated as available for employment when suffering a domestic emergency.\nRegulation 2(b) inserts paragraph (2ZC) into regulation 14 of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 to provide that claimants who have recently become homeless may be treated as available for employment only where they take reasonable steps to find living accommodation. This regulation also inserts paragraph (2ZD) into regulation 14 to provide that claimants to whom paragraph (2ZC) applies may be treated as available for employment under paragraph (2)(b) for periods of longer than one week and on more than four such occasions in any period of 12 months.\nThese Regulations make in relation to Northern Ireland only provision corresponding to provision contained in Regulations made by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 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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  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2014/192/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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