Regulation 11 Definition of “training allowance”I1

The definition of “training allowance” in each of the regulations specified in paragraph (2) (which are interpretation provisions) shall be modified in its application to persons to whom this Part applies as if at the end there were added—

• “nor does it include any top-up payment made to a person (“the participant”) pursuant to—

  1. (i)

     section 1 of the Employment and Training Act (Northern Ireland) 1950 in respect of the participant’s participation in the intensive activity period of the New Deal pilot for 25 plus as defined for the purposes of the Social Security (New Deal Pilot) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000^f1 in regulation 2(1) of those Regulations (“the intensive activity period”), or

  2. (ii)

     a written arrangement entered into between the Department of Higher and Further Education, Training and Employment and the person who has arranged for the participant’s participation in the intensive activity period and which is made in respect of the participant’s participation in that period.”.

The regulations to which paragraph (1) refers are—