{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-regulations-1996/regulation-46",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-regulations-1996/regulation-46.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/207",
  "legislation_title": "The Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/46",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "46",
  "heading": "Waiting Days",
  "text": "(1) Paragraph 4 of Schedule 1 to the Act shall not apply in a case where–\n(a) a person’s entitlement to a jobseeker’s allowance commences within 12 weeks of an entitlement of his to income support, incapacity benefit , employment and support allowance , carer’s allowance or carer support payment coming to an end; or\n(b) a claim for a jobseeker’s allowance falls to be determined by reference to section 3(1)(f)(ii) (persons under the age of 18); or\n(c) a joint-claim couple are entitled to a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance in respect of themselves and that paragraph of that Schedule has already applied to one member of that couple in respect of a jobseeking period which is linked to a jobseeking period relating to that member which has commenced by virtue of his having claimed a jobseeker’s allowance as a member of that couple;\n(d) a joint-claim couple have claimed a jobseeker’s allowance jointly within 12 weeks of either member of that couple being entitled to a jobseeker’s allowance, income support, incapacity benefit , employment and support allowance , carer’s allowance or carer support payment;\n(e) a member of a joint-claim couple is both in receipt of a training allowance and the nominated member for the purposes of section 3B.\n(2) In the case of a person to whom paragraph 4 of Schedule 1 to the Act applies, the number of days is 7.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 46(1)(a) inserted (27.10.2008) by The Employment and Support Allowance (Consequential Provisions) (No. 2) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1554), regs. 1(2)(b), 3(6)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 46(1)(a) substituted (19.11.2023) by The Carer’s Assistance (Carer Support Payment) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/1218), arts. 1(2), 8(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in reg. 46(1)(b) inserted (19.3.2001) by The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Joint Claims) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/1978), reg. 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 10(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 46(1)(c)-(e) added (19.3.2001) by The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Joint Claims) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/1978), reg. 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 10(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 46(1)(d) inserted (27.10.2008) by The Employment and Support Allowance (Consequential Provisions) (No. 2) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1554), regs. 1(2)(b), 3(6)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 46(1)(d) substituted (19.11.2023) by The Carer’s Assistance (Carer Support Payment) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/1218), arts. 1(2), 8(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Word in reg. 46(2) substituted (27.10.2014) by The Social Security (Jobseeker’s Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance) (Waiting Days) Amendment Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2309), regs. 1, 2(1) (with reg. 4(1))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/207/regulation/46",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:53:28.715055+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}