Regulation 3 Amendment of the Social Security (Credits) RegulationsI1

after sub-paragraph (c) there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph—

“(cc)

a week in respect of which a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance was not payable or was reduced pursuant to Article 22A of that Order (denial or reduction of joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance) because the person was subject to sanctions for the purposes of that Article, even though the couple of which he was a member satisfied the conditions for entitlement to that allowance;”;

after sub-paragraph (d) there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph—

“(dd)

a week in respect of which a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance was payable in respect of a joint-claim couple of which the person is a member only by virtue of regulation 146C^f2 of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 (circumstances in which a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance is payable where a joint-claim couple is a couple in hardship);”.