{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2001/regulation-12",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/488",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996",
  "text": "In the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996—\n(a) in regulation 52 (persons treated as engaged in remunerative work), paragraphs (4) to (6) shall be omitted;\n(b) in paragraph 13 of Schedule 2 (housing costs: linking rules)—\n(i) in sub-paragraph (1)—\n(aa) in head (a)(ii), after the words “12 weeks or less” there shall be inserted the words “or, as the case may be, 52 weeks or less,”;\n(bb) in head (c)(iv), after the words “twelve weeks” there shall be inserted the words “or, as the case may be, 52 weeks,”;\n(cc) in head (d), after the words “twelve weeks” there shall be inserted the words “or, as the case may be, 52 weeks,”;\n(dd) in head (f)(iii), after the words “12 weeks” there shall be inserted the words “or, as the case may be, 52 weeks,”;\n(ii) in sub-paragraph (12), after “(1)(a)(ii),” there shall be inserted “(1)(c)(iv),”;\n(iii) after sub-paragraph (12) there shall be added the following sub-paragraphs—\n“(13) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)(a)(ii), (1)(c)(iv), (1)(d) and (1)(f)(iii), the relevant period shall be—\n(a) 52 weeks in the case of a person to whom sub-paragraph (14) applies;\n(b) subject to sub-paragraph (12), 12 weeks in any other case.\n(14) This sub-paragraph applies, subject to sub-paragraph (15), in the case of a person who, on or after 9th April 2001, has ceased to be entitled to a jobseeker’s allowance because he or his partner or, where that person is a member of a joint-claim couple, the other member of that couple—\n(a) has commenced employment as an employed earner or as a self-employed earner or has increased the hours in which he is engaged in such employment;\n(b) is taking active steps to establish himself in employment as an employed earner or as a self-employed earner under any scheme for assisting persons to become so employed which is mentioned in regulation 19(1)(r)(i) to (iii); or\n(c) is participating in—\n(i) a New Deal option;\n(ii) an employment zone programme;\n(iii) the self-employment route,\nand, as a consequence, he or his partner was engaged in remunerative work or failed to satisfy the conditions specified in section 2(1)(c) or 3(1)(a) or the joint-claim couple of which he was a member failed to satisfy the condition in section 3A(1)(a).\n(15) Sub-paragraph (14) shall only apply to the extent that immediately before the day on which the person ceased to be entitled to an income-based jobseeker’s allowance or the joint-claim couple of which he was a member ceased to be entitled to a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance, his housing costs were being met in accordance with paragraph 6(1)(a) or 7(1)(a) or would have been so met but for any non-dependant deduction under paragraph 17.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/207."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Regulation 52(4) to (6) was inserted by S.I. 1999/2556."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Paragraph 13 of Schedule 2 was amended by S.I. 1996/1517, 1997/2863 and 1998/2231."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/488/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:01:57.748277+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."
}