{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-1999/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1999/107",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-1999",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations",
  "text": "(1) The Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (6).\n(2) In regulation 14(1) (circumstances in which a person is to be treated as available) after sub-paragraph (j) there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph—\n“(ja) notwithstanding regulation 15(a), if he is participating in a programme provided by the Venture Trust in pursuance of an arrangement made by the Secretary of State for the Home Department with the Trust, for a maximum of 4 weeks and one such programme in any period of 12 months;”.\n(3) In regulation 19(1) (circumstances in which a person is to be treated as actively seeking employment) after sub-paragraph (j) there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph—\n“(ja) in any week during which he is participating for not less than 3 days in a programme provided by the Venture Trust in pursuance of an arrangement made by the Secretary of State for the Home Department with the Trust, for a maximum of 4 weeks and one such programme in any period of 12 months;”.\n(4) In regulation 30(c) (circumstances in which a claimant is to be regarded as having good cause for failing to comply with a notice under regulation 23) for “(k)” there shall be substituted “(ja)”.\n(5) In regulation 47(3)(b) (jobseeking period) the words from “or, where good cause” to the end of the sub-paragraph shall be omitted.\n(6) In Schedule 2 (housing costs) in paragraph 13(6)(b) for “regulation 9” there shall be substituted “regulation 8A or 8B”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1996 No. 198; relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 1996 No. 358 and S.R. 1997 No. 138"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Paragraph (1) was amended by S.R. 1997 No. 138"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Sub-paragraph (j) was substituted by regulation 5(2)(b) of S.R. 1996 No. 358"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Sub-paragraph (j) was substituted by regulation 7(3) of S.R. 1996 No. 358"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "In S.R. 1975 No. 113 regulations 8A and 8B were inserted by regulation 2(6) of S.R. 1996 No. 430"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1999/107/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:20:40.445429+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."
}