Regulation 27 Transitional mattersF1F2

For the purposes of determining whether a person satisfies the requirements of regulation 6 (waiting period), days on or after 1st July 1996 but before 7th October 1996 in respect of which a person was entitled to unemployment benefit shall be treated as days of entitlement to a contribution-based jobseeker’s allowance, and shall include those Sundays, or the day substituted for Sunday by regulations made under the former section 25A(1)(e) of the Benefits Act M1, which fall only between days of entitlement to unemployment benefit.

Where in accordance with transitional provisions made under section 40 the rules as to the calculation of earnings which apply in the case of a person entitled to a jobseeker’s allowance are those which applied before 7th October 1996 to that person in respect of an entitlement to unemployment benefit, then—

Any period of entitlement to income support which falls before 1st July 1996 shall not count for the purposes of regulation 6 (waiting period).

No bonus period shall commence before 7th October 1996.