{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-transitional-provisions-amendment-regulations-1996/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-transitional-provisions-amendment-regulations-1996/regulation-3.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/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Linking periods",
  "text": "(1) Regulation 3 of the Transitional Provisions Regulations (linking periods) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.\n(2) In paragraph (1) in sub-paragraph (d) at the end there shall be inserted the words “and is required to attend court.”.\n(3) In paragraph (2) at the end there shall be added the following sub-paragraph—\n“(e) any period of interruption of employment where a jobseeking period begins within 8 weeks of that period ending.”.\n(4) After paragraph (2) the following paragraph shall be inserted—\n“(2A) For the purpose of sub-paragraph (2)(e) a day of unemployment shall form part of a period of interruption of employment if a jobseeking period begins within 6 days of that day.”.\n(5) Any period of interruption of employment which ends within 8 weeks of the commencement of a jobseeking period as described in regulation 2(1) shall be treated, for the purposes of this regulation, as a jobseeking period.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1515/regulation/3",
    "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."
}