The Social Security (Amendment) (New Deal) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998

Interpretation of Article 21 of the Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 and Part V of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations

8.  In regulation 75(1)(b) of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations(1) (interpretation)—

(a)in sub-paragraph (i) “and” at the end shall be deleted;

(b)in sub-paragraph (ii) for “skills.” there shall be substituted “skills, and”;

(c)after sub-paragraph (ii) there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph—

(iii)for the purposes of Article 21(5)(b)(iii) and (iv) and (c) of the Order, in relation to a person who has been treated as available for employment to any extent under regulation 17A(3), the qualifying course in respect of which he has been so treated..

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Regulation 75 was substituted by regulation 8 of S.R. 1997 No. 541