{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/new-deal-miscellaneous-provisions-order-northern-ireland-1998/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/new-deal-miscellaneous-provisions-order-northern-ireland-1998/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1998/127",
  "legislation_title": "New Deal (Miscellaneous Provisions) Order (Northern Ireland) 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/new-deal-miscellaneous-provisions-order-northern-ireland-1998",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Treatment of persons and payments for purposes of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992, the Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 and other specified statutory provisions.",
  "text": "(1) The provisions of this Article apply for the purposes of—\n(a) Part I of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992,\n(b) the Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 1995, and\n(c) the statutory provisions specified in the Schedule.\n(2) If, for any period or periods commencing with and including and falling after the date on which this Order comes into operation, 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 Environmental 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 1 of the 1950 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 operation, 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 periods and in respect of his participation as not being employed but as participating in arrangements for training under section 1 of the 1950 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": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 2 substituted (29.9.1998) by New Deal (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 1998 (S.R. 1998/309), arts. 1(1), 2(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1998/127/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:24:34.404183+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."
}