3. At the end of regulation 52 of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996(1) (persons treated as engaged in remunerative work) there shall be added the following paragraphs—
“(4) Subject to paragraph (5), a person who has not been treated as engaged in remunerative work in accordance with regulation 6(2) of the Income Support Regulations (persons not treated as engaged in remunerative work) as a consequence of his commencing work shall be treated as engaged in remunerative work for the period specified in paragraph (6) where he ceased to be engaged in that work within the period of 5 weeks beginning on and including the date on which he commenced it.
(5) Paragraph (4) shall not apply in the case of a person who is temporarily absent from the work referred to in regulation 6(2)(a) of the Income Support Regulations.
(6) A person to whom paragraph (4) applies shall be treated as engaged in remunerative work for the period commencing on and including the day after the day on which he was last engaged in the work referred to in regulation 6(2)(a) of the Income Support Regulations and ending on the day on which the length of that period corresponds with the length of the period in respect of which he had not been treated as engaged in remunerative work in accordance with regulation 6(2) of those Regulations.”.