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The Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996

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Interpretation of Part IV

57.—(1) In this Part–

F1...

[F2“child benefit extension period” means the extension period within the meaning of regulation 5(3) of the Child Benefit (General) Regulations 2006 (extension period: 16 and 17 year olds).]

“chronically sick or mentally or physically disabled" has the same meaning as in regulation 13(3)(b) of the Income Support Regulations (circumstances in which persons in relevant education may be entitled to income support);

F1...

“full-time education" has the same meaning as in regulation 1 of the Child Benefit (General) Regulations 1976 F3;

“suitable training" means training which is suitable for that young person in vocationally relevant respects, namely his personal capacity, aptitude, his preference, the preference of the training provider, the level of approved qualification aimed at, duration of the training, proximity and prompt availability of the training;

“training" in sections 3, 16 and 17 and in this Part except in regulation 65 read with section 7 and except in the phrase—

“suitable training", means training for which persons aged under 18 are eligible and for which persons aged 18 to 24 may be eligible [F4secured by the [F5[F6Secretary of State]F7...] or by the [F8Welsh Ministers] and, in Scotland, provided], directly or indirectly by a Local Enterprise Company pursuant to its arrangement with, as the case may be, [F9Skills Development Scotland,] Scottish Enterprise or Highlands and Islands Enterprise (whether that arrangement is known as an Operating Contract or by any other name);

“treatment" means treatment for a disease or bodily or mental disablement by or under the supervision of a person qualified to provide medical treatment, physiotherapy or a form of treatment which is similar to, or related to, either of those forms of treatment;

[F10“young person” means a person—

(a)

who has reached the age of 16 but not the age of 18;

(b)

who does not satisfy the conditions in section 2 or whose entitlement to a contribution-based jobseeker’s allowance has ceased as a result of section 5(1); and

(c)

who is not a person to whom section 6 of the Children (Leaving Care) Act 2000 (exclusion from benefits) applies]

(2) A young person falls within this paragraph if he is

(a)a member of a married couple [F11or of a civil partnership] where the other member of that couple [F12or civil partnership]

(i)has reached the age of 18 or

(ii)is a young person who has registered for employment and training in accordance with regulation 62 or

(iii)is a young person to whom paragraph (4) applies;

(b)a person who has no parent nor any person acting in the place of his parents;

(c)a person who–

(i)is not living with his parents nor any person acting in the place of his parents; and

(ii)immediately before he attained the age of 16 was

(aa)[F13in England and Wales] being looked after by a local authority pursuant to a relevant enactment which placed him with some person other than a close relative of hisF14...

(bb)in custody in any institution to which the Prison Act 1952 F15 applies or under [F16the Prisons (Scotland) Act 1989]F17; [F18or]

[F19(cc)in Scotland, in the care of a local authority under a relevant enactment and whilst in that care was not living with his parents or any close relative.]

(d)a person who is in accommodation which is other than his parental home and which is other than the home of a person acting in the place of his parents, who entered that accommodation—

(i)as part of a programme of rehabilitation or resettlement, that programme being under the supervision of the probation service or a local authority; or

(ii)in order to avoid physical or sexual abuse; or

(iii)because of a mental or physical handicap or illness and he needs such accommodation because of his handicap or illness;

(e)a person who is living away from his parents and any person who is acting in the place of his parents in a case where his parents are or, as the case may be, that person is, unable financially to support him and his parents are, or that person is—

(i)chronically sick or mentally or physically disabled; or

(ii)detained in custody pending trial or sentence upon conviction or under a sentence imposed by a court; or

(iii)prohibited from entering or re-entering Great Britain;

(f)a person who of necessity has to live away from his parents and any person acting in the place of his parents because—

(i)he is estranged from his parents and that person; or

(ii)he is in physical or moral danger; or

(iii)there is a serious risk to his physical or mental health.

(3) In this regulation any reference to a person acting in the place of a person’s parents includes a reference—

[F20(a)in England and Wales, any reference in this regulation to a person acting in place (b) of a person’s parents includes a reference to—

(i)where the person is being looked after by a local authority or voluntary organisation which places him with a family, a relative of his, or some other suitable person, the person with whom the person is placed, whether or not any payment is made to him in connection with the placement; or

(ii)in any other case, any person with parental responsibility for the child, and for this purpose “parental responsibility” has the meaning it has in the Children Act 1989 by virtue of section 3 of that Act; and

(b)in Scotland, any reference in this regulation to a person acting in place of a person’s parents includes a reference to a local authority or voluntary organisation where the person is in its care under a relevant enactment, or to a person with whom the person is boarded out by a local authority or voluntary organisation whether or not any payment is made by it.]

(4) This paragraph applies to

(a)a person who falls under any of the following paragraphs of Schedule 1B to the Income Support Regulations F21

Paragraph 1(lone parents)
Paragraph 2(single person looking after foster children)
Paragraph 3(persons temporarily looking after another person)
Paragraph 4(persons caring for another person)
[F22Paragraph 10][F22(disabled students)]
Paragraph 11
[F23Paragraph 12]
[F24Paragraph 13][F24(blind persons)]
Paragraph 14(pregnancy)
Paragraph 15(persons in education)
Paragraph 18(refugees)
Paragraph 21(persons from abroad)
Paragraph 23(member of couple looking after children while other member temporarily abroad)
Paragraph 28(persons in receipt of a training allowance);

(b)a person who is a member of a couple and is treated as responsible for a child who is a member of his household;

(c)a person who is laid off or kept on short-time, who is available for employment in accordance with section 6 and Chapter II of Part II read with regulation 64 and who has not been laid off or kept on short-time for more than 13 weeks;

(d)a person who is temporarily absent from Great Britain because he is taking a member of his family who is a child or young person abroad for treatment, and who is treated as being in Great Britain in accordance with regulation 50(1)(b) or whose entitlement to income support is to continue in accordance with regulation 4(3) of the Income Support Regulations and who is not claiming a jobseeker’s allowance or income support;

(e)a person who is incapable of work and training by reason of some disease or bodily or mental disablement if, in the opinion of a medical practitioner, that incapacity is unlikely to end within 12 months because of the severity of that disease or disablement.

Textual Amendments

F21S.I. 1987/1967; Schedule 1B is inserted by Regulation 3 of and Schedule 1 to the Income Support (General) (Jobseeker's Allowance Consequential Amendments) Regulations 1996, S.I. 1996/206.

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