Explanatory note
This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations further amend the Social Security (Unemployment, Sickness and Invalidity Benefit) Regulations 1983 in the following respects—
they provide, except in the case of lifeboatmen and part-time firemen, for a day not to be treated as a day of unemployment if that day falls within a period of7 days in which the claimant’s earnings equal or exceed the lower earnings limit for Class 1 contributions (regulations 2(a) and (c) and 3);
they exclude the application of the full extent normal rule to days falling in a week, and provide for employment to be treated as terminated in any week, in which the claimant’s earnings are £12.00 or less (regulations 2(b) and 4); and provide for the purpose of the full extent normal rule for week to have the same meaning as in the Social Security Act 1975 (regulation 2(d)).
The report of the Social Security Advisory Committee dated 11th October 1989 on the proposals to make these regulations together with the statement showing the extent to which the regulations give effect to them and, in so far as they do not give effect to them, the reasons why not are contained in Command Paper No. 923 published by Her Majesty’s Stationery Office.