{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-regulations-1996/schedule-1/paragraph-20L",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-regulations-1996/schedule-1/paragraph-20L.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/207",
  "legislation_title": "The Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-regulations-1996",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/20L",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "20L",
  "heading": "Person in receipt of benefit",
  "text": "For the purposes of this Part of this Schedule, a member of a joint-claim couple shall be regarded as being in receipt of any benefit if, and only if, it is paid in respect of him and shall be so regarded only for any period in respect of which that benefit is paid.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 Pts. 4A-4B inserted (19.3.2001) by The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Joint Claims) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/1978), reg. 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 53(4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/207/schedule/1/paragraph/20L",
    "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."
}