Regulation 21 Amendment of the Social Security (Mariners’ Benefits) Regulations 1975

The Social Security (Mariners’ Benefits) Regulations 1975 M1 shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

In regulation 4(b) (removal of disqualification for receiving benefit by reason of absence from Great Britain) M2 the words “unemployment benefit" shall be omitted.

In regulation 5 (evidence of unemployment or incapacity) M3 for the words “unemployment benefit" there shall be substituted the words “a jobseeker’s allowance".

In regulation 7 (modification of contribution conditions for receiving benefit in certain circumstances, in respect of mariners employed on board foreign-going ships) for all the words preceding the words “because the contributor concerned" there shall be substituted the following words—

“Where, on a claim for benefit, a contribution condition that the contributor concerned must in respect of the relevant past year have—

(a)

either paid or been credited with contributions of a relevant class and the earnings factor derived from those contributions must not be less than a specified multiple of that year’s lower earnings limit; or

(b)

either paid contributions or been credited with earnings as specified in section 2 of the Jobseekers Act 1995 M4, and the earnings factor derived from earnings upon which contributions have been paid or from earnings credited must not be less than a specified multiple of that year’s lower earnings limit,

cannot apart from this regulation be satisfied”.

In regulation 9 (application of the Act and regulations) after the words “relating to benefits" there shall be inserted the words “, or of the Jobseekers Act 1995 and regulations made thereunder".