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Regulation 6 Jobseeker’s Allowance to replace income support and unemployment benefit

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(1)

Regulation 6 of the Transitional Provisions Regulations (jobseeker’s allowance to replace income support and unemployment benefit) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2)

In paragraph (1)—

(a)

for the words “a person whose award” there shall be substituted the words “a person who is paid benefit in respect of the relevant day in accordance with an award”, and after the words“unemployment benefit” in the second place where they occur there shall be inserted the words“and the award”;

(b)

after the words “jobseeker’s allowance” where they occur for the second time, there shall be inserted the words “, except, in relation to a contribution-based jobseeker’s allowance, those specified in sections 1(2)(e) and 2(1)(c) of the Act,”.

(3)

In paragraph (3) at the end there shall be added—

“nor as having an award of a jobseeker’s allowance in accordance with regulation 5(1).”.