2 Amendment of the Social Security (Unemployment, Sickness and Invalidity Benefit) Regulations 1983
1 The Social Security (Unemployment, Sickness and Invalidity Benefit) Regulations 1983 shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this regulation.
S.I.1983/1598; relevant amending instruments are S.I.1989/1324, 1991/387 and 1992/2913.
2 In regulation 11 (availability of persons attending work camps)—
(a) after paragraph (1) there shall be inserted—

“1A Subject to paragraph (2), where a person who has given notice in accordance with paragraph (3) attends a programme of training and activities known as the 28 days Venture Trust Project in the residential accommodation situated at Applecross in Scotland in pursuance of arrangements made by the Secretary of State, he shall be deemed to be available to be employed in employed earner’s employment on each day of his attendance; and on those days regulation 7(1)(g) shall apply to him as if head (ii) were omitted.”

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(b) in paragraph (2), after the word “camp”there shall be inserted the words “, or of attendance on the 28 days Venture Trust Project, as the case may be,”;
(c) in paragraph (3)—
(i) after the words “paragraph (1)”there shall be inserted the words “or (1A), as the case may be”, and
(ii) after the word “relates”there shall be inserted the words “or before the person concerned arrives at Applecross in Scotland”.
3 In regulation 12D (persons deemed to be actively seeking employment), in paragraph (2), after sub-paragraph (c) there shall be added—

“; or
(d) a maximum of 5 consecutive weeks during which he is, for at least 3 days in each such week, undergoing a programme of training and activities known as the 28 days Venture Trust Project in the residential accommodation situated at Applecross in Scotland in pursuance of arrangements made by the Secretary of State.”

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Regulation 12D was inserted by S.I.1989/1324 and amended by S.I.1991/387 and 1992/2913.