[F1Continuity of claims and awards: persons ceasing to be a joint-claim coupleN.I.
9A.—[F2(1) Regulations may make provision about the entitlement to a jobseeker's allowance of persons ( “ex-members”) who cease to be members of a joint-claim couple.N.I.
(2) Regulations under this paragraph may, in particular, provide—
(a)for treating each or either of the ex-members as having made any claim made by the couple or, alternatively, for any such claim to lapse;
(b)for any award made in respect of the couple to be replaced by an award (a “replacement award”) in respect of each or either of the ex-members of the couple or, alternatively, for any such award to lapse.]]
F2Sch. 1 paras. 9-10 repealed (27.9.2017, 15.11.2017, 13.12.2017, 17.1.2018, 16.5.2018 and further specified dates for specified purposes) by The Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/2006), art. 2(2), Sch. 12 Pt. 1; S.R. 2017/190, art. 6, Sch. 2 (with arts. 7, 8, 10-25, Sch. 3); S.R. 2017/216, art. 4 (with art. 5); S.R. 2018/1, art. 4 (with art. 5); S.R. 2018/97, art. 4 (with art. 5)