{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-transitional-provisions-regulations-1996/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-transitional-provisions-regulations-1996/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2567",
  "legislation_title": "The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-transitional-provisions-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Jobseeker’s Allowance to replace Income Support and Unemployment Benefit",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the following provisions of this regulation, a person who is paid benefit in respect of the relevant day in accordance with an award of income support or unemployment benefit, or income support and unemployment benefit, and the award is terminated in accordance with the preceding provisions of these Regulations shall be treated as having been awarded a jobseeker’s allowance for a period commencing on the first day of the next benefit week to begin for that claimant on or after 7th October 1996 and continuing until such date as he fails to satisfy, or in respect of which he ceases to be treated as satisfying, any condition of entitlement to a jobseeker’s allowance, except in relation to a contribution-based jobseeker’s allowance, those specified in sections 1(2)(e) and 2(1)(c), which applies in his case.\n(2) A person whose award of income support is cancelled in accordance with regulation 4(2) shall be treated as having been awarded an income-based jobseeker’s allowance as from the date the award of income support would have taken effect and continuing until such date as he fails to satisfy, or in respect of which he ceases to be treated as satisfying, any condition of entitlement to a jobseeker’s allowance which applies in his case.\n(3) A person—\n(a) to whom unemployment benefit was payable in respect of the relevant day; and\n(b) to whom unemployment benefit was not payable in respect of either 6th or 7th April 1996; and\n(c) who had on the relevant day been entitled to unemployment benefit for 156 days or more (including the relevant day) in the period of interruption of employment which included the relevant day,\nshall not be treated as entitled to a contribution-based jobseeker’s allowance in accordance with paragraph (1) nor as having an award of a jobseeker’s allowance in accordance with regulation 5(2).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2567/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:34:14.395802+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."
}