{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-regulations-1996/regulation-71",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-regulations-1996/regulation-71.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/207",
  "legislation_title": "The Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/71",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "71",
  "heading": "Voluntary Redundancy",
  "text": "(1) A claimant is to be treated as not having left his employment voluntarily–\n(a) where he has been dismissed by his employer by reason of redundancy after volunteering or agreeing to be so dismissed, ...\n(b) where he has left his employment on a date agreed with his employer without being dismissed, in pursuance of an agreement relating to voluntary redundancy or\n(c) where he has been laid off or kept on short-time to the extent specified in section 148 of the Employment Rights Act 1996, and has complied with the requirements of that section.\n(2) In paragraph (1) “redundancy\" means one of the facts set out in paragraphs (a) and (b) of section 139(1) of the Employment Rights Act 1996.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in reg. 71(1)(a) deleted (7.10.1996) by The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Amendment) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/1516), regs. 1(1), 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 71(1)(c) and word inserted (7.10.1996) by The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Amendment) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/1516), regs. 1(1), 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 71(1)(c) substituted (1.10.2007) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 5) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/2618), regs. 1(1), 8(5)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 71(2) substituted (1.10.2007) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 5) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/2618), regs. 1(1), 8(5)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/207/regulation/71",
    "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."
}