{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-claims-and-payments-amendment-regulations-2009/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-claims-and-payments-amendment-regulations-2009/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2009/604",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Claims and Payments) Amendment Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-claims-and-payments-amendment-regulations-2009",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996",
  "text": "In regulation 1(3) of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996 (citation, commencement and interpretation) for the definition of “benefit week” substitute—\n““benefit week” means—\n(a) a period of 7 days ending with a day determined in accordance with paragraph (b) unless, in any particular case or class of case, the Secretary of State arranges otherwise;\n(b) the day specified for the purposes of paragraph (a) is the day in column (2) which corresponds to the series of numbers in column (1) which includes the last 2 digits of the person’s national insurance number—\n(1)\n(2)\n00 to 19\nMonday\n20 to 39\nTuesday\n40 to 59\nWednesday\n60 to 79\nThursday\n80 to 99\nFriday;\n”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/207. The definition of “benefit week” was amended by S.I. 1996/1517, 1996/2538 and 2006/2378."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/604/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:15:24.819797+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."
}