# The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Lone Parents) (Availability for Work) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 (“the 1996 Regulations”) by inserting new regulation 13A which applies to lone parents who are responsible for, and a member of the same household as, a child under the age of 13.
It is normally a condition of entitlement to jobseeker’s allowance that claimants are willing and able to take up employment of at least 40 hours per week, but regulation 13A provides for an easement in the case of lone parents to whom the new provision applies. They will be able to restrict their availability for employment to the child’s normal school hours.
Consequential amendments are also made to other provisions of the 1996 Regulations concerning a claimant’s availability for work, contents of a jobseeker’s agreement and good cause for the purposes of Article 21 of the Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 1995.
These 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, 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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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2010/144/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-lone-parents-availability-for-work-regulations-northern-ireland-2010/note
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