SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 7Jobseeker's allowance in interim period: consequential amendments

Jobseekers Act 1995 (c. 18)

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Section 8 (attendance etc) is amended as follows.

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In subsection (1A)(a) (as originally enacted), for “the Secretary of State” there is substituted “an employment officer“.

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In subsection (2), for paragraphs (a) to (c) there is substituted “ provide for entitlement to a jobseeker's allowance to cease at such time as may be determined in accordance with any such regulations if, when a person fails to comply with such regulations, that person (or, if that person is a member of a joint-claim couple, either member of the couple) does not make prescribed contact with an employment officer within a prescribed period of the failure. ”