Amendment of the Social Security (Credits) Regulations
3. In regulation 8A(5) of the Social Security (Credits) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1975(1) (credits for unemployment)—
(a)after sub-paragraph (c) there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph—
“(cc)a week in respect of which a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance was not payable or was reduced pursuant to Article 22A of that Order (denial or reduction of joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance) because the person was subject to sanctions for the purposes of that Article, even though the couple of which he was a member satisfied the conditions for entitlement to that allowance;”;
(b)after sub-paragraph (d) there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph—
“(dd)a week in respect of which a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance was payable in respect of a joint-claim couple of which the person is a member only by virtue of regulation 146C(2) of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 (circumstances in which a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance is payable where a joint-claim couple is a couple in hardship);”.
S.R. 1975 No. 113; regulation 8A was inserted by regulation 2(6) of S.R. 1996 No. 430
Regulation 146C was inserted by regulation 2(3) of S.R. 2000 No. 350