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Availability for Employment Availability for Employment

  1. 5Exceptions to requirement to be available immediately: carers, voluntary workers, persons providing a service and persons under an obligation to provide notice
  2. 6Employment of at least 40 hours per week
  3. 7Restriction of hours for which a person is available to 40 hours per week
  4. 8Other restrictions on availability
  5. 9No restrictions on pay after six months
  6. 10Reasonable prospects of employment
  7. 11Part-time students
  8. 12Volunteers
  9. 13Additional restrictions on availability for certain groups
  10. 13AAdditional restrictions on availability for lone parents
  11. 14Circumstances in which a person is to be treated as available
  12. 14ACircumstances in which a person is to be treated as available
  13. 15Circumstances in which a person is not to be regarded as available
  14. 16Further circumstances in which a person is to be treated as available: permitted period
  15. 17Laid off and short-time workers
  16. 17AFurther circumstances in which a person is to be treated as available: full-time students participating in a qualifying course
  17. 17BFurther circumstances in which a person is to be treated as available: lone parents with children aged 5 not in full-time education

Notes on the whole SI

Textual amendments

F1

1995 c.18.

F2

Section 35(1) is an interpretation provision: it is cited because it contains powers exercised in these Regulations in the definitions of “employment", “jobseeker's period", “pensionable age", “pensionable payments", “training" and “work" and because of the meaning assigned to the words “prescribed" and “regulations".

F3

1992 c.5; section 191 is an interpretation provision and it is cited because of the meaning ascribed to the word “prescribed".

F4

1992 c.4; sections 171D and 171G(2) were inserted by the Social Security (Incapacity for Work) Act 1994 (c.18), section 6(1) and have effect for the purposes of the Jobseekers Act 1995 by virtue of paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 to that Act. Section 171G(2) is an interpretation provision and is cited because of the meaning ascribed to the word “prescribed".

F5

See section 173(5)(b) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c.5).