The New Deal (Miscellaneous Provisions) Order 1998

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the New Deal (Miscellaneous Provisions) Order 1998 and shall come into force on 2nd March 1998.

(2) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires—

“the New Deal” means the arrangements known by that name and made under section 2 of the 1973 Act for which only persons who are aged 18 years or over and less than 26 years immediately prior to entry are eligible and which are designed to help New Deal Participants to obtain work or to improve their prospects of obtaining work;

“the New Deal Components” means any of the following, that is to say, the programmes of employment or employment-related training under the New Deal known individually as “the Full-time Education and Training Option”, “the Voluntary Sector Option” and “the Environment Task Force Option”;

“training allowance” means a payment made directly by the Secretary of State to a New Deal Participant in connection with his participation in one or more of the New Deal components;

and a person is, or, as the case may be, was, at any material time, a “New Deal Participant”if he is, or, as the case may be, was, at that time, using facilities provided for him in pursuance of one or more of the New Deal Components.

Treatment of persons and payments for the purposes of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992, the Jobseekers Act 1995 and specified subordinate legislation

2.  For the purposes of—

(a) Part I of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992(1),

(b) the Jobseekers Act 1995(2) and

(c) the subordinate legislation specified in the Schedule to this Order,

if, for any period or periods commencing with or falling after the date on which this Order comes into force, during which a person is a New Deal Participant, that person receives, or is eligible to receive, a training allowance, he is to be treated for that period or those periods and in respect of his participation as not being employed but as participating in arrangements for training under section 2 of the 1973 Act; and accordingly any payment made to such a person during that period or those periods in connection with his use of facilities shall be treated in the same manner as a payment of training allowance made in respect of such training.

Signed by order of the Secretary of State

Andrew Smith

Minister of State,

Department for Education and Employment

6th February 1998