{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-regulations-1996/schedule-8/paragraph-17A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-regulations-1996/schedule-8/paragraph-17A.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/207",
  "legislation_title": "The Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-regulations-1996",
  "path": "schedule/8/paragraph/17A",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "17A",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(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.\n(2) But sub-paragraph (1)—\n(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;\n(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);\n(c) ceases to apply to the payment or any part of the payment from the day on which the claimant no longer possesses it;\n(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.\n(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.\n(4) References in sub-paragraphs (2) and (3) to the claimant are to be construed as including references to his partner (where applicable).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "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)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/207/schedule/8/paragraph/17A",
    "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."
}