{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/new-deal-miscellaneous-provisions-order-1998/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/new-deal-miscellaneous-provisions-order-1998/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/217",
  "legislation_title": "The New Deal (Miscellaneous Provisions) Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/new-deal-miscellaneous-provisions-order-1998",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Treatment of persons and payments for the purposes of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992, the Jobseekers Act 1995 and specified subordinate legislation",
  "text": "(1) The provisions of this article apply for the purposes of—\n(a) Part I of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992,\n(b) the Jobseekers Act 1995 and\n(c) the subordinate legislation specified in the Schedule to this Order.\n(2) If, for any period or periods commencing with or falling after the date on which this Order comes into force, during which a person is a New Deal Participant and is participating in either the Full-time Education and Training Option, the Voluntary Sector Option or the Environment Task Force Option, that person receives, or is eligible to receive, a training allowance, he is to be treated for that period or those periods and in respect of his participation as not being employed but as participating in arrangements for training under section 2 of the 1973 Act; and accordingly any payment made to such a person during that period or those periods in connection with his use of facilities shall be treated in the same manner as a payment of training allowance made in respect of such training.\n(3) If, for any period or periods commencing with or falling after the date on which this paragraph comes into force, during which a person is a New Deal Participant and is participating in the Employment Option in a capacity other than that of employee, that person receives, or is eligible to receive, a training allowance, he is to be treated for that period or those periods and in respect of his participation as not being employed but as participating in arrangements for training under section 2 of the 1973 Act; and accordingly any payment, other than a trading receipt, made to such a person during that period or those periods in connection with his use of facilities shall be treated in the same manner as a payment of training allowance made in respect of such training.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 2 substituted (3.7.1998) by The New Deal (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Amendment) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/1425), arts. 1, 2(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/217/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:38:05.635629+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."
}