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Amendment of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations

3.  In regulation 1(2) (interpretation) of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996(1) for the definition of “benefit week” substitute—

“benefit week” means—

(a)

a period of 7 days ending with a day determined in accordance with paragraph (b) unless, in any particular case or class of case, the Department arranges otherwise;

(b)

the day specified for the purposes of paragraph (a) is the day in column (2) which corresponds to the series of numbers in column (1) which includes the last 2 digits of the person’s national insurance number—

Column (1)Column (2)
00 to 19Monday
20 to 39Tuesday
40 to 59Wednesday
60 to 79Thursday
80 to 99Friday;.
(1)

S.R. 1996 No. 198; the definition of “benefit week” was amended by regulation 2(2) of S.R. 1996 No. 358, regulation 2(2)(a) of S.R. 1996 No. 503 and regulation 13(2) of S.R. 2006 No. 359