Regulation 21A Further circumstances in which a qualifying person is to be treated as actively seeking employment: full-time students participating in a qualifying courseF1
A person who is treated as available for employment in accordance with regulation 17A(3) shall be treated as actively seeking employment in any week—
which, in relation to the qualifying course, falls wholly or partly in term-time;
n which he is taking examinations relating to the qualifying course; or
which falls wholly in a vacation from the qualifying course, if in that week he takes such steps as he can reasonably be expected to have to take in order to have the best prospects of securing employment for which he is available under regulation 17A(3)(c).
Annotations
Textual amendments
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Reg. 21A inserted (1.6.1998) by The Social Security Amendment (New Deal) Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/1274), regs. 1(1), 6
Notes on the whole SI
Textual amendments
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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".
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1992 c.5; section 191 is an interpretation provision and it is cited because of the meaning ascribed to the word “prescribed".
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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".
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See section 173(5)(b) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c.5).