{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-lone-parents-and-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2012/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-lone-parents-and-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2012/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/874",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Lone Parents and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-lone-parents-and-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2012",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996",
  "text": "(1) The Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996 are amended as follows.\n(2) After regulation 17A (further circumstances in which a person is to be treated as available: full-time students participating in a qualifying course), insert—\n“Further circumstances in which a person is to be treated as available: lone parents with children aged 5 not in full-time education\n17B A lone parent shall be treated as available for employment in any week where—\n(a) the lone parent is responsible for, and a member of the same household as, a child who is aged 5;\n(b) the child—\n(i) is nor receiving full-time education by regular attendance at school or otherwise; and\n(ii) is not required by law to receive full-time education; and\n(c) it would be unreasonable for the lone parent to make other arrangements for the care of that child.”\n(3) After regulation 21A (further circumstances in which a qualifying person is to be treated as actively seeking employment; full-time students participating in a qualifying course), insert—\n“Further circumstances in which a person is to be treated as actively seeking employment: lone parents with children aged 5 not in full-time education\n21B. A lone parent who is treated for any period as being available for employment under regulation 17B shall be treated as actively seeking employment for the same period”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/207."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Regulation 17A was inserted by S.I. 1998/1274."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Regulation 21A was inserted by S.I. 1998/1274."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/874/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:36:12.411839+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."
}