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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-unemployment-sickness-and-invalidity-benefit-and-credits-amendment-regulations-1982/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1982/96",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Unemployment, Sickness and Invalidity Benefit and Credits) Amendment Regulations 1982",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-unemployment-sickness-and-invalidity-benefit-and-credits-amendment-regulations-1982",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "These Regulations amend the Social Security (Unemployment, Sickness and Invalidity Benefit) Regulations 1975 (“the principal regulations”). Regulation 3 amends regulation 7(1)(h) of the principal regulations:\nit increases from 75p to £2.00 a day the maximum amount a person may earn before that day ceases to be treated as a day of unemployment;\nit abolishes the requirement that a day may be so treated only if the employment in which the person is engaged is consistent with full-time employment;\nand it provides that the employment shall either not be the person's usual main occupation or be done for or through a charity, a local authority or a health authority.\nRegulation 4 inserts in the principal regulations new regulations 9A, 9B and 9C. These regulations deem persons to whom they apply to be available for employment in employed earner's employment:\nregulation 9A applies to persons engaged in duties arising out of an emergency;\nregulation 9B to persons who attend a work camp requiring their residing away from home;\nand regulation 9C to persons providing services who are ready on being given at least 24 hours' notice to undertake employment or attend for interview.\nRegulation 5 makes related amendments to the Social Security (Credits) Regulations 1975.\nThe report of the Social Security Advisory Committee, dated 26th August 1981, on the draft of these Regulations referred to them, together with a statement showing that the Regulations give effect to the Committee's recommendations relating to them, is contained in Command Paper (Cmnd. 8486) published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "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."
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