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Explanatory note

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(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Social Security (Unemployment, Sickness and Invalidity Benefit) Regulations 1983—

(a)

to provide for a person who has been in receipt of unemployment benefit to be deemed to be available for employment where a doubt has arisen about his availability for employment until the question of his availability has been determined or until he has been requested to supply information within a period and fails to do so within that period, whichever is earlier (regulation 2);

(b)

to change certain references to supplementary benefit to references to income support (regulation 3).