# The Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996, Regulation 3A: Prescribed description of a joint-claim couple for the purposes of section 1(4)


(1) For the purposes of section 1(4), a joint-claim couple shall include any joint-claim couple within the meaning given in section 1(4) of the Act where at least one member is aged 18 or over and was born after 28th October 1947, unless a member of the couple is treated as responsible for a child or young person under regulation 77(3), or the couple has care of a child or young person in one or more of the circumstances mentioned in regulation 78(4), or a child or young person is living with either member of the couple in the circumstances mentioned in regulation 78(8).
(2) In a case where a person would (but for these Regulations) be a member of more than one joint-claim couple, a joint-claim couple means the couple of which he is a member which that person nominates (or in default of such nomination, which the Secretary of State nominates), to the exclusion of any other couple of which he is a member.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/207/regulation/3A (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-regulations-1996/regulation-3A
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