2.—(1) A contribution-based jobseeker’s allowance and a contributory employment and support allowance are to be treated as benefits for the purposes of making provision under paragraph 8(1)(d) of Schedule 1 to the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (power to make provision for contributions paid at one time to be treated as paid at some other time).
(2) In this regulation—
“contribution-based jobseeker’s allowance” means a contribution-based jobseekers’s allowance under Part 2 of the Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 1995;
“contributory employment and support allowance” means a contributory allowance under Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007.