Regulation 67 Sanctions
Without prejudice to any other circumstances in which a person may be regarded as having F1a good reason for any act or omission for the purposes of F2section 19A(2)(d), (e) or (f), and in addition to the circumstances listed in regulation 73, a young person is to be regarded as having a good reason for any act or omission for the purposes of section 19A(2)(d), (e) or (f) where
this is the first occasion on which he has done an act or omission falling within section 19A(2)(d), (e) or (f) and he has not while claiming a jobseeker's allowance failed to pursue an opportunity of obtaining training without a good reason or rejected an offer of training without a good reason or failed to complete a course of training and no certificate has been issued to him under subsection (4) of section 17 with respect to that training; and
at the time he did the act or omission falling within F3section 19A(2)(d) or (e) or failed to attend a training scheme or employment programme he was F4... a new jobseeker or, in the case where he has given up a place on a training scheme or employment programme, at the time he first attended the scheme or programme he was ... a new jobseeker.
Without prejudice to any other circumstances in which a person may be regarded as having a good reason for any act or omission for the purposes of F5section 19(2)(c) or (d), a young person is to be regarded as having a good reason for any act or omission for the purposes of section 19(2)(c) or (d) where the employer did not offer suitable training unless he falls within regulation 61(1)(a) or (f) or his jobseeker’s allowance has been reduced in accordance with regulation 63 or in accordance with regulation 68 because he has done an act or omission falling within F6section 19A(2)(d), (e), (f) or (g) or F7section 19(2)(a), (b), (c) or (d) read with Part V.
For the purposes of this regulation, “new jobseeker" means a young person who has not since first leaving full-time education been employed or self-employed for 16 or more hours per week or completed a course of training or failed to complete a course of training and no certificate has been issued to him to show a good reason for that failure under subsection (4) of section 17 or F8given up a place on a training scheme or employment programme without a good reason or done an act or omission falling within F9section 19A(2)(g).
Annotations
Textual amendments
- F1
Words in reg. 67 substituted (22.10.2012) by The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Sanctions) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/2568), regs. 1(1), 5(17)(a)
- F2
Words in reg. 67(1) substituted (22.10.2012) by The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Sanctions) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/2568), regs. 1(1), 5(17)(b)(i)
- F3
Words in reg. 67(1)(b) substituted (22.10.2012) by The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Sanctions) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/2568), regs. 1(1), 5(17)(b)(ii)
- F4
Words in reg. 67(1)(b) deleted (7.10.1996) by The Jobseeker’s Allowance and Income Support (General) (Amendment) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/1517), regs. 1, 13
- F5
Words in reg. 67(2) substituted (2.4.2013) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/443), regs. 1, 4(5)(a)
- F6
Words in reg. 67(2) substituted (22.10.2012) by The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Sanctions) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/2568), regs. 1(1), 5(17)(c)(ii)
- F7
Words in reg. 67(2) substituted (2.4.2013) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/443), regs. 1, 4(5)(b)
- F8
Words in reg. 67(3) substituted (22.10.2012) by The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Sanctions) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/2568), regs. 1(1), 5(17)(d)(i)
- F9
Words in reg. 67(3) substituted (22.10.2012) by The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Sanctions) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/2568), regs. 1(1), 5(17)(d)(ii)
Notes on the whole SI
Textual amendments
- F1
- 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).