{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-regulations-1996/regulation-55A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-regulations-1996/regulation-55A.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/207",
  "legislation_title": "The Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/55A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "55A",
  "heading": "Periods of sickness and persons receiving treatment outside Great Britain",
  "text": "(1) A person—\n(a) who has been awarded a jobseeker’s allowance, a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance...; and\n(b) who is temporarily absent from Great Britain in the circumstances prescribed by regulation 50(6AA) or, as the case may be, (6C); and\n(c) who proves to the satisfaction of the Secretary of State that he is unable to work on account of some specific disease or disablement; and\n(d) but for his disease or disablement, would satisfy the requirements for entitlement to a jobseeker’s allowance other than those specified in section 1(2)(a), (c) and (f) (available for and actively seeking employment and capable of work or not having limited capability for work),\nshall be treated during that period of temporary absence abroad as capable of work or as not having limited capability for work, except where that person has stated in writing before that period of temporary absence abroad begins that immediately before the beginning of the period of that temporary absence abroad he has claimed ..., employment and support allowance....\n(2) The evidence which is required for the purposes of paragraph (1)(c) is a declaration made by that person in writing, in a form approved for the purposes by the Secretary of State, that he will be unfit for work from a date or for a period specified in the declaration.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 55A inserted (4.10.2004) by The Social Security (Income Support and Jobseeker’s Allowance) Amendment Regulations 2004 (S.I. 2004/1869), regs. 1, 3(6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 55A(1)(a) omitted (22.10.2012) by virtue of The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Sanctions) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/2568), regs. 1(1), 5(11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 55A(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(10)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 55A(1) 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(10)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 55A(1) omitted (31.1.2011) by SI 2010/1907 Sch. 4 para. 1A(2) (as inserted by The Employment and Support Allowance (Transitional Provisions, Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit) (Existing Awards) (No. 2) (Amendment) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/2430), regs. 1(3), 19(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 55A(1) 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(10)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Reg. 55A(1)(a) modified (22.11.2010) by The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Work for Your Benefit Pilot Scheme) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/1222), regs. 1(2), 18(d)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/207/regulation/55A",
    "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."
}