Paragraph 3

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

Sch. 1 para. 14(2) inserted by Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2010 Sch. 1 para. 23(5)(b)
Sch. 1 para. 14A and cross heading inserted by Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2010 Sch. 1 para. 23(6)
Sch. 1 para. 2(4) added by Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2010 Sch. 1 para. 23(2)
Sch. 1 para. 8 substituted by Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2010 Sch. 1 para. 23(3)
Sch. 1 para. 8A(1) words substituted by Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2010 Sch. 1 para. 23(4)
Sch. 1 para. 14(1) Sch. 1 para. 14 renumbered as Sch. 1 para. 14(1) by Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2010 Sch. 1 para. 23(5)(a)
Sch. 1 para. 8ZA inserted by The Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 art. 66(4)
Sch. 1 para. 8(b) words substituted by The Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 Sch. 7 para. 10(2)
Sch. 1 para. 8B(3) words substituted by The Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 Sch. 7 para. 10(3)(a)
Sch. 1 para. 8B(3) words substituted by The Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 Sch. 7 para. 10(3)(b)
Sch. 1 para. 8B(3) words substituted by The Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 Sch. 7 para. 10(3)(c)

Regulations may provide—

(a)

for jobseeking periods which are separated by not more than a prescribed number of weeks to be treated, for purposes of this Order, as one jobseeking period;

(b)

for prescribed periods ( “linked periods”) to be linked, for purposes of this Order, to any jobseeking period.

Notes on the whole Order

Textual amendments

F1: functions transf. by SR 1999/481
F2: mod. by SR 1999/350