The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Joint Claims) Regulations 2000

52.  Regulation 155 (modification of section 15(2) of the Act) shall be renumbered regulation 155(1) and—

(a) in the renumbered paragraph (1), after the words “income-based jobseeker’s allowance” in the first place where those words occur, there shall be inserted the words “but not a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance”;

(b) after the renumbered paragraph (1) there shall be added the following paragraph—

“(2) In its application to a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance payable for a part-week, section 15(2)(d) shall have effect subject to the following modification—

“(d) any payment by way of a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance for that period or any part of it which apart from this paragraph would be made to the nominated member for the purposes of section 3B—

(i) shall not be made, if the amount of joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance which would be payable for less than a week is equal to or less than the proportion of the prescribed sum appropriate to the number of days in the part-week;

(ii) shall be at a rate equal to the difference between the amount which would be payable for a period of less than a week and the prescribed sum where that amount would be more than the prescribed sum.””.