The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Jobseeker Mandatory Activity) Pilot Regulations 2007

Interpretation

2.—(1) In these Regulations—

“appropriate office” means an office of the Department for Work and Pensions which is identified in the Schedule by reference to its region, district and name on 2nd April 2007, and where such an office closes, a reference in the Schedule to that office shall be construed in relation to any person as a reference to the office at which that person is required to attend instead of that office;

“benefit” means a jobseeker’s allowance or any earnings credited to a person in accordance with regulation 8A of the Social Security (Credits) Regulations 1975(1);

“the Jobseeker’s Regulations” means the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996(2);

“Jobseeker Mandatory Activity Pilot” means the employment programme known by that name and provided in pursuance of arrangements made by or on behalf of the Secretary of State under section 2 of the Employment and Training Act 1973(3), being a programme comprising an initial three-day work-focused course and three follow-up interviews with an employment officer, for any individual who has been claiming benefit for a continuous period of not less than six months ending on the first required entry date to any such programme.

(2) In respect of any period throughout which a member of a joint-claim couple is claiming a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance, the other member of that couple shall, for the purposes of these Regulations, also be treated as claiming benefit throughout that period.

(1)

S.I. 1975/556. Regulation 8A was inserted by S.I. 1996/2367; the relevant amending instruments are S.I.s 2000/3120, 2001/518 and 1711 and 2002/490.

(2)

S.I. 1996/207.

(3)

1973 c.50. Section 2 was amended by section 25 of the Employment Act 1988 (c.19), Schedule 7 to the Employment Act 1989 (c.38) and section 47 of the Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Act 1993 (c.19).