2000 No. 2194
SOCIAL SECURITY

The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2000

Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
The Secretary of State for Education and Employment, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 8(1) and (2) and 35(1) of the Jobseekers Act 19951, and after agreement by the Social Security Advisory Committee that proposals in respect of these Regulations need not be referred to it2, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement1.

These Regulations may be cited as the Jobseeker’s Allowance (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 11th September 2000.

Amendment of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations2.

(1)

The Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 19963 shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this regulation.

(2)

For regulation 23 (attendance) there shall be substituted the following regulation—

“A claimant shall attend at such place and at such time as an employment officer may specify by a notification which is given or sent to the claimant and which may be in writing, by telephone or by electronic means.”

(3)

In regulation 24(8) and (10) (provision of information and evidence) for the word “notice” there shall be substituted the word “notification”.

(4)

In regulation 25 (entitlement ceasing on a failure to comply) for the word “notice”, in each place where it appears, there shall be substituted the word “notification”.

(5)

In each of regulations 26, 27(1), 28(1) and 30 for the word “notice” there shall be substituted the word “notification”.

Tessa Jowell
Minister of State
Department for Education and Employment
(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/207).

In particular, they remove the requirement that an employment officer must specify in writing the place and time at which a claimant of a jobseeker’s allowance may be required to attend. The regulations provide that a claimant may be summoned by telephone or by electronic means, as well as by a written summons.