Treatment of persons and payments for purposes of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992, the Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 and other specified statutory provisions.
2.—(1) For the purposes of—
(a)Part I of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992(1),
(b)the Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 1995(2), and
(c)the statutory provisions specified in the Schedule,
if, for any period or periods commencing with and including or falling after the date on which this Order comes into operation, during which a person is a New Deal participant, that person receives, or is eligible to receive, a training allowance, he is to be treated for that period or those periods and in respect of his participation as not being employed but as participating in arrangements for training under section 1 of the 1950 Act; and, accordingly, any payment made to such a person during that period or those periods in connection with his use of facilities provided in pursuance of the New Deal shall be treated in the same manner as a payment of training allowance made in respect of such training.