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Section 13 Work-related activityC1F1

England, Wales and Scotland

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

I1(1)

Regulations may make provision for or in connection with imposing on a person who is subject to a requirement imposed under section 12(1) a requirement to undertake work-related activity in accordance with regulations as a condition of continuing to be entitled to the full amount payable to him in respect of an employment and support allowance apart from the regulations.

(2)

Regulations under this section may, in particular, make provision—

(a)

prescribing circumstances in which such a person is subject to a requirement to undertake work-related activity in accordance with regulations;

(b)

for notifying such a person of any such requirement;

(c)

prescribing the time or times at which a person who is subject to such a requirement is required to undertake work-related activity and the amount of work-related activity he is required at any time to undertake;

(d)

prescribing circumstances in which a person who is subject to such a requirement is, or is not, to be regarded as undertaking work-related activity;

(e)

for securing that the appropriate consequence follows if a person who is subject to such a requirement—

(i)

fails to comply with the regulations, and

(ii)

does not, within a prescribed period, show that he had good cause for that failure;

(f)

prescribing the evidence which a person who is subject to such a requirement needs to provide in order to show that he has complied with the regulations;

(g)

prescribing matters which are, or are not, to be taken into account in determining whether a person has complied with the regulations;

(h)

prescribing matters which are, or are not, to be taken into account in determining whether a person had good cause for any failure to comply with the regulations;

(i)

prescribing circumstances in which a person is, or is not, to be regarded as having good cause for any such failure.

(3)

For the purposes of subsection (2)(e), the appropriate consequence of a failure falling within that provision is that the amount payable to the person in question in respect of an employment and support allowance is to be reduced in accordance with regulations.

(4)

Regulations under subsection (3) may, in particular, make provision for determining—

(a)

the amount by which an allowance is to be reduced,

(b)

when the reduction is to start, and

(c)

how long it is to continue,

and may include provision prescribing circumstances in which the amount of the reduction is to be nil.

(5)

Regulations under this section shall include provision for a requirement to undertake work-related activity in accordance with regulations to cease to have effect if the person subject to the requirement becomes a member of the support group.

(6)

Regulations under this section may include provision that in such circumstances as the regulations may provide a person's obligation under the regulations to undertake work-related activity at a particular time is not to apply, or is to be treated as not having applied.

I2(7)

In this Part, “work-related activity”, in relation to a person, means activity which makes it more likely that the person will obtain or remain in work or be able to do so.

(F28)

The reference to activity in subsection (7) includes work experience or a work placement.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Ss. 11-11K substituted for ss. 11-16 (25.2.2013 for specified purposes, 29.4.2013 for specified purposes and subsequently on the days on which and for the purposes for which "the amending provisions" are brought into force by secondary legislation) by Welfare Reform Act 2012 (c. 5), ss. 57(2), 150(3); S.I. 2013/358, art. 2(1), Sch. 1 para. 12; S.I. 2013/983, art. 7(1)(d) (with art. 7(3)) (as amended: (1.7.2013) by S.I. 2013/1511, art. 6)

F2

S. 13(8) inserted (3.12.2012) by Welfare Reform Act 2012 (c. 5), ss. 55, 150(3); S.I. 2012/2530, art. 2(3)

Modifications

C1

Pt. 1 modified by 1995 c. 18, Sch. 1 para. 2(2) (as inserted (27.10.2008) by Welfare Reform Act 2007 (c. 5), s. 70(2), Sch. 3 para. 12(6); S.I. 2008/787, art. 2(4)(f))

Commencement

I1

S. 13(1)-(6) in force at 11.2.2011 by S.I. 2011/330, art. 2(a)

I2

S. 13(7) in force at 28.10.2008 by S.I. 2008/2772, art. 2

Notes on Part 1

Modifications

C2

Pt. 1 applied (with modifications) (1.10.2010) by The Employment and Support Allowance (Transitional Provisions, Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit) (Existing Awards) (No. 2) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/1907), regs. 1(2), 6(2)(a), Sch. 1

C3

Pt. 1 applied (with modifications) (1.10.2010) by The Employment and Support Allowance (Transitional Provisions, Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit) (Existing Awards) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/875), regs. 1(2), 6, Sch. 1 (which amending S.I. was revoked (27.8.2010) by SI 2010/1906, reg. 2)

C4

Pt. 1 applied (with modifications) (1.10.2010) by The Employment and Support Allowance (Transitional Provisions, Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit) (Existing Awards) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/875), regs. 1(2), 16, Sch. 2 (which amending S.I. was revoked (27.8.2010) by SI 2010/1906, reg. 2)

C5

Pt. 1 applied (with modifications (as amended)) (1.10.2010) by The Employment and Support Allowance (Transitional Provisions, Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit) (Existing Awards) (No. 2) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/1907), regs. 1(2), 16(2)(a), Sch. 2; (1.5.2012) by The Employment and Support Allowance (Duration of Contributory Allowance) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/913), regs. 1(2), 10(4)

C6

Pt. 1 modified (22.2.2012) by The Social Security (Reciprocal Agreements) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/360), arts. 1, 2, Sch. 1, Sch. 2

C7

Pt. 1 modified (6.4.2016) by The Social Security (Northern Ireland Reciprocal Arrangements) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/287), regs. 1, 2(2)(f), Sch.

C8

Pt. 1 applied (with modifications) (27.11.2016 for specified purposes, 6.4.2017 in so far as not already in force) by The Social Security (Northern Ireland Reciprocal Arrangements) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/1050), reg. 2(2)

C9

Pt. 1 modified (coming into force in accordance with art. 1 of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Ireland) Order 2019 (S.I. 2019/622), art. 2; 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

C10

Pt. 1 modified (1.1.2021) by The Social Security (Norway) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/1597), arts. 1, 2(1)(2), Sch. (with art. 2(3))

C11

Pt. 1 modified (coming into force in accordance with art. 1 of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Switzerland) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/1088), art. 2(1)-(3), Sch.

C12

Pt. 1 modified (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Iceland) (Liechtenstein) (Norway) Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/1060), art. 2, Sch.