Regulation 3 Application of the Act and regulations

The provisions relating to benefit (other than industrial injuries benefit) of the Act and of the regulations made thereunderF1, and the Jobseekers Act 1995 and regulations made thereunder F2and Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act and regulations made under it shall, so far as they are not inconsistent with the provisions of these regulations, apply to an airman with this modification, that where an airman is, on account of his being outside the United Kingdom by reason of his employment as an airman, unable to perform an act required to be done either forthwith or on the happening of a certain event or within a specified time, he shall be deemed to have complied therewith if he performs the act as soon as is reasonably practicable, although after the happening of the event or the expiration of the specified time.