{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-regulations-2013/regulation-36",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-regulations-2013/regulation-36.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/378",
  "legislation_title": "The Jobseeker's Allowance Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/36",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "36",
  "heading": "Waiting Days",
  "text": "(1) Paragraph 4 of Schedule 1 to the Act does not apply in a case where a person's entitlement to a jobseeker's allowance commences within 12 weeks of an entitlement of theirs to income support, incapacity benefit, employment and support allowance , carer’s allowance or carer support payment coming to an end.\n(2) In the case of a person to whom paragraph 4 of Schedule 1 to the Act applies, the number of days is seven.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 36(1) substituted (19.11.2023) by The Carer’s Assistance (Carer Support Payment) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/1218), arts. 1(2), 24(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 36(2) substituted (27.10.2014) by The Social Security (Jobseeker s Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance) (Waiting Days) Amendment Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2309), regs. 1, 2(3) (with reg. 4(1))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Regulations modified (24.4.2013) by The Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 9 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions and Commencement No. 8 and Savings and Transitional Provisions (Amendment)) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/983), (art. 12) (with application in accordance with art. 12(1)) (as amended: (20.6.2013) by S.I. 2013/1511)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/378/regulation/36",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:03:37.987840+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."
}