The Project Work (Miscellaneous Provisions) Order 1996
S.I. 1996/1623 · Made 24 June 1996
SOCIAL SECURITY
Made 24th June 1996
Laid before Parliament 25th June 1996
Coming into force 17th July 1996
Whereas arrangements have been made by the Secretary of State under section 2 of the Employment and Training Act 1973M1 ( “the 1973 Act") to set up a programme to be known as Project Work:
And whereas it appears to the Secretary of State that Project Work makes provision for persons using facilities provided in pursuance of those arrangements to receive payments in connection with their use of those facilities:
Now, therefore, the Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on her by section 26(1)(a), (c) and (d) and (2) of the Employment Act 1988M2 and of all other powers enabling her in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:—
Annotations to the whole text
Marginal citations
- M1
1973 c.50; section 2 was substituted by section 25(1) of the Employment Act 1988 (c.19).
- M2
Contents
- 1Citation and commencement
- 2Interpretation
- 3Treatment of persons and payments for purposes of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 and the subordinate legislation specified in the Schedule
- Signature
- Schedule: List of subordinate legislation
- Paragraph
- Explanatory note
1Citation and commencement
This Order may be cited as the Project Work (Miscellaneous Provisions) Order 1996 and shall come into force on 17th July 1996.
2Interpretation
In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires—
“Project Work" means the programme of combined work experience and supervised jobsearch provided in pursuance of arrangements made by the Secretary of State under section 2 of the Employment and Training Act 1973 and known as Project Work;
“training allowance" means a payment made, directly or indirectly, by the Secretary of State to a Project Work Participant in connection with his participation in Project Work;
and a person is, or, as the case may be, was at any material time, a “Project Work Participant" if he is, or, as the case may be, was at that time, using facilities provided for him in pursuance of arrangements made for Project Work.
3Treatment of persons and payments for purposes of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 and the subordinate legislation specified in the Schedule
For the purposes of—
Part I of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 M1,
the Jobseekers Act 1995 M2 and
the subordinate legislation specified in the Schedule to this Order,
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 Project Work Participant, that person receives, or is eligible to receive, a training allowance he is to be treated 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.
Signature
Eric Forth
Minister of State,
Department for Education and Employment
The Social Security (Credits) Regulations 1975 M1
The Social Security (Overlapping Benefits) Regulations 1979 M2
The Social Security (Unemployment, Sickness and Invalidity Benefit) Regulations 1983 M3
The Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 M4
The Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987 M5
The Income Support (Transitional) Regulations 1987 M6
F1The Housing Benefit Regulations 2006;
F2The Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 2006;
The Family Credit (General) Regulations 1987 M7
The European Communities (Iron and Steel Employees Re-adaptation Benefits Scheme) (No. 2) Regulations 1988 M8
The Fire Precautions (Factories, Offices, Shops and Railway Premises) Order 1989 M9
The Students’ Allowances (Scotland) Regulations 1991 M10
The Income Support (General) Amendment No. 4 Regulations 1991 M11
The Income Support (General) Amendment No. 6 Regulations 1991 M12
The Disability Working Allowance (General) Regulations 1991 M13
The Child Support (Maintenance Assessment Procedure) Regulations 1992 M14
F3The Council Tax Benefit Regulations 2006;
F4The Council Tax Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 2006
The Child Support (Maintenance Assessment and Special Cases) Regulations 1992 M15
The Housing Renovation etc. Grants (Reductions of Grant) Regulations 1994 M16
The Education Authority Bursaries (Scotland) Regulations 1995 M17
The Education (Mandatory Awards) Regulations 1995 M18
The Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996 M19
F5The Child Support (Maintenance Calculations and Special Cases) Regulations 2000
The Child Support (Maintenance Calculation Procedure) Regulations 2000
Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order provides that, for the purposes of Part I of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (c.4) and the Jobseekers Act 1995 (c.18) and of the subordinate legislation specified in the Schedule to the Order, a person using facilities provided under the Project Work programme shall be treated as participating in arrangements for training under section 2 of the Employment and Training Act 1973 (c.50). Any payment made to such a person in connection with his use of those facilities shall be treated as a payment of training allowance made in respect of such training.