# The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Joint Claims) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000, Paragraph 52

Extent: N.I.

Regulation 155 (modification of Article 17(2) of the Order) shall be renumbered regulation 155(1) and—
(a) in the renumbered paragraph (1), after “income-based jobseeker’s allowance” in the first place where those words occur, there shall be inserted “but not a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance”;
(b) after the renumbered paragraph (1) there shall be added the following paragraph—
“(2) In its application to a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance payable for a part-week, Article 17(2)(d) of the Order shall have effect subject to the following modification—
“(d) any payment by way of a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance for that period or any part of it which apart from this paragraph would be made to the nominated member for the purposes of Article 5B of the Order—
(i) shall not be made, if the amount of joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance which would be payable for less than a week is equal to or less than the proportion of the prescribed sum appropriate to the number of days in the part-week;
(ii) shall be at a rate equal to the difference between the amount which would be payable for a period of less than a week and the prescribed sum where that amount would be more than the prescribed sum.””.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2000/350/schedule/2/paragraph/52 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-joint-claims-regulations-northern-ireland-2000/schedule-2/paragraph-52
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