# The Social Security (Unemployment, Sickness and Invalidity Benefit) Amendment Regulations 1988, Note: Explanatory note


(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).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/689/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-unemployment-sickness-and-invalidity-benefit-amendment-regulations-1988/note
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