The Employer’s Contributions Re-imbursement Regulations 1996

Circumstances in which a person is to be treated as unemployed for a continuous period of 2 years immediately before his employment

3.—(1) Where this regulation applies, a person who would not otherwise satisfy the relevant condition shall be treated as satisfying that condition.

(2) This regulation applies where a person would have satisfied the relevant condition had the reference to “two years” been a reference to a period of two years within the meaning of regulation 1(2).

(3) This regulation applies where, but for a breaking period occurring immediately after the period of unemployment, a person would have satisfied the relevant condition.

(4) This regulation applies where a person has periods of unemployment separated by breaking periods and those periods of unemployment excluding the intervening breaking periods form in aggregate a period of not less than two years.

(5) This regulation applies where a person would have satisfied the relevant condition but for his engagement in employment which is not treated as remunerative work for the purposes of regulation 5(1) of the Income Support Regulations(1).

(6) This regulation applies where–

(a) a person would have satisfied the relevant condition but for his engagement in employment for any day; and

(b) that day would not be excluded as a day of unemployment in relation to him by the application of regulation 7(1)(o) of the Unemployment Regulations(2).

(7) In this regulation “the relevant condition” means the condition in subsection (2)(a) of section 27 of the Jobseekers Act.

(1)

Regulation 5(1) was amended by S.I. 1991/1559 subject to savings in S.I. 1992/468.

(2)

Regulation 7(1)(o) was added by S.I. 1989/2122.