{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefit-members-of-the-forces-regulations-1975/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefit-members-of-the-forces-regulations-1975/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1975/493",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Benefit) (Members of the Forces) Regulations 1975",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefit-members-of-the-forces-regulations-1975",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Unemployment benefit",
  "text": "(1) Any person who, whilst a serving member of the forces, is discharged... or otherwise dismissed in consequence of having been convicted on any proceedings under the Armed Forces Act 2006, or by any civil court, shall be treated for the purposes of section 6J, section 19 or 20A of the Jobseekers Act 1995 (circumstances in which a jobseeker’s allowance is not payable) or section 26 of the Welfare Reform Act 2012 (higher-level sanctions) or Article 31 of the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 (higher level sanctions) as though he has lost his employment through misconduct.\n(2) Section 19(6)(b) and (d) or section 20A(2)(e) and (g) of the Jobseekers Act 1995 (jobseeker’s allowance not payable where claimant has voluntarily left employment or neglected to avail himself of a reasonable opportunity of employment) shall not apply to a claimant who whilst a serving member of the forces is discharged at his own request.\n(3) For the purposes of any claim for a jobseeker’s allowance or universal credit under Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act 2012 or under Part 2 of the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015, a document purporting to be signed by a person authorised in that behalf by the Secretary of State certifying the fact that any person has been discharged... or otherwise dismissed as mentioned in either of the foregoing paragraphs of this regulation and the date of the discharge... or dismissal shall be conclusive evidence thereof, unless it is proved that the document was not signed by a person so authorised.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in reg. 3(1) omitted (31.10.2009) by virtue of The Armed Forces Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/2054), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 7(2) (with Sch. 2 para. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(1) substituted (31.10.2009) by The Armed Forces Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/2054), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 7(2) (with Sch. 2 para. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(1) substituted (7.10.1996) by The Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/207), regs. 1(2), 168(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(1) inserted (29.4.2013) by The Universal Credit (Consequential, Supplementary, Incidental and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/630), regs. 1(2), 21(2)(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(1) inserted (19.3.2001) by The Social Security (Joint Claims: Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/1982), regs. 1, 6(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(1) inserted (29.4.2013) by The Universal Credit (Consequential, Supplementary, Incidental and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/630), regs. 1(2), 21(2)(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(1) inserted (N.I.) (coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(1) of the amending Rule) by The Universal Credit (Consequential, Supplementary, Incidental and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/236), regs. 1(1), 18(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Reg. 3(2) substituted (7.10.1996) by The Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/207), regs. 1(2), 168(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(2) inserted (19.3.2001) by The Social Security (Joint Claims: Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/1982), regs. 1, 6(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(3) substituted (7.10.1996) by The Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/207), regs. 1(2), 168(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(3) inserted (29.4.2013) by The Universal Credit (Consequential, Supplementary, Incidental and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/630), regs. 1(2), 21(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(3) inserted (N.I.) (coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(1) of the amending Rule) by The Universal Credit (Consequential, Supplementary, Incidental and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/236), regs. 1(1), 18(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F13",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(3) omitted (31.10.2009) by virtue of The Armed Forces Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/2054), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 7(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3 modified (7.10.1996) by The Social Security and Child Support (Jobseeker’s Allowance) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/1345), regs. 1, 14(2); The references to unemployment benefit in the heading to this regulation is obsolete and replaced with jobeeker’s allowance as from 7.10.96"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in force at 6.4.1975, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1975/493/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:12:52.189995+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."
}