Regulation 6 Transition from unemployment benefit to a jobseeker’s allowance: further provisionsI1
Northern Ireland Not yet in force
A person who has an award of unemployment benefit, or unemployment benefit and income support, for the benefit week that includes 7th October 1996, but to whom unemployment benefit is not payable in respect of the relevant day shall—
be treated as having an award of a jobseeker’s allowance from the first day of the benefit week after the benefit week that includes the relevant day until such date as he fails to satisfy, or ceases to be treated as satisfying, any condition of entitlement to a jobseeker’s allowance that applies in his case, and
be treated as satisfying the requirements of Article 3(2)(b) of the Order (jobseeker’s agreement) until the day he actually enters into a jobseeker’s agreement in accordance with Article 11(1) of the Order (jobseeker’s agreement) or until, in a case where a proposed jobseeker’s agreement is referred to an adjudication officer for him to determine, the day the adjudication officer gives a direction in accordance with Article 11(7) of the Order.
For the purposes of paragraph (1), a person who is disqualified for receiving unemployment benefit in accordance with section 28 of the Benefits Act as in force on 6th October 1996 for the benefit week that includes 7th October 1996 shall be treated as having an award of unemployment benefit for that week.
A person who, in respect of his claim for unemployment benefit, or unemployment benefit and income support, has restricted the hours he is available for work to 40 hours or more a week, shall be treated as having recorded his pattern of availability in the jobseeker’s agreement he is treated as having entered into under paragraph (1)(b).
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Reg. 6 in operation at 16.12.1996, see reg. 1(1)