{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-transitional-provisions-amendment-regulations-1996/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-transitional-provisions-amendment-regulations-1996/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1515",
  "legislation_title": "The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Transitional Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-transitional-provisions-amendment-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Jobseeker’s Allowance (Transitional Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations 1996 and shall come into force on 7th October 1996, immediately following the coming into force of the Transitional Provisions Regulations.\n(2) In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Jobseekers Act 1995;\n“the Transitional Provisions Regulations” means the Jobseeker’s Allowance (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 1995;\n“the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations” means the Jobseeker]s Allowance Regulations 1996;\n“the Unemployment Benefit Regulations” means the Social Security (Unemployment, Sickness and Invalidity Benefit) Regulations 1983.\n(3) For the avoidance of doubt, a person complies with any requirement or provision of these Regulations or the Transitional Provisions Regulations if he is treated as complying with that requirement or provision.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1995/3276."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/207."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1983/1598; the relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1989/2122."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1515/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:42:00.742016+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."
}