Regulation 168 Amendment to the Social Security Benefit (Members of the Forces) Regulations

(1)

Regulation 3 of the Social Security Benefit (Members of the Forces) Regulations 1975 F1 (unemployment benefit) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2)

In paragraph (1) for the words from “shall be disqualified" to the end of the paragraph there shall be substituted the words “ shall be treated for the purposes of section 19 of the Jobseekers Act 1995 F2 (circumstances in which a jobseeker’s allowance is not payable) as though he has lost his employment through misconduct. ”.

(3)

For paragraph (2) there shall be substituted the following paragraph–

“(2)
Section 19(6)(b) and (d) of the Jobseekers Act 1995 (jobseeker’s allowance not payable where claimant has voluntarily left employment or neglected to avail himself of a reasonable opportunity of employment) shall not apply to a claimant who whilst a serving member of the forces is discharged at his own request.”.

(4)

In paragraph (3) for the words “unemployment benefit" there shall be substituted the words “ a jobseeker’s allowance ”.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: S.I. 1975/493.
F2: 1995 c.18.

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).