Regulation 164 Amount payable

(1)

The amount payable to a share fisherman by way of a contribution-based jobseeker’s allowance shall be calculated in accordance with regulations 79 to 81 (weekly amounts of contribution-based jobseekers allowance, deductions in respect of earnings and payments by way of pensions) and this regulation, and Part XI (part-weeks) shall not apply.

(2)

Regulations 79 to 81 shall apply in respect of share fishermen so that the amount payable is calculated by reference to earnings earned and pension payments received in the benefit week.

(3)

In this regulation “benefit week" means–

(a)

in respect of the week in which the claim is made, the period of 7 days beginning with the date of claim; and

(b)

in respect of any subsequent week, the period of 7 days beginning with the day after the last day of the previous benefit week.

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).