Paragraph 17A F1

(1)

Any payment made to the claimant or the claimant’s partner in consequence of any personal injury to the claimant or, as the case may be, the claimant’s partner.

(2)

But sub-paragraph (1)—

(a)

applies only for the period of 52 weeks beginning with the day on which the claimant first receives any payment in consequence of that personal injury;

(b)

does not apply to any subsequent payment made to him in consequence of that injury (whether it is made by the same person or another);

(c)

ceases to apply to the payment or any part of the payment from the day on which the claimant no longer possesses it;

(d)

does not apply to any payment from a trust where the funds of the trust are derived from a payment made in consequence of any personal injury to the claimant.

(3)

For the purposes of sub-paragraph (2)(c), the circumstances in which a claimant no longer possesses a payment or a part of it include where the claimant has used a payment or part of it to purchase an asset.

(4)

References in sub-paragraphs (2) and (3) to the claimant are to be construed as including references to his partner (where applicable).

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Sch. 8 para. 17A inserted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(4) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/2378), reg. 13(13)(b)

Notes on the whole SI

Textual amendments

F1: 1995 c.18.
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).

Notes on Schedule 8

Modifications

C1: Sch. 8 modified (22.11.2010) by The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Work for Your Benefit Pilot Scheme) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/1222), regs. 1(2), 17