SCHEDULE 7 Jobseeker's Allowance in Interim Period: Consequential Amendments
Welfare Reform Act 2012 (2012 c 5) | Legislation

SCHEDULE 7 Jobseeker's Allowance in Interim Period: Consequential Amendments

Section 48

Jobseekers Act 1995 (c 18)

1

The Jobseekers Act 1995 is amended as follows.

2

(1)ÌýÌýÌýÌý Section 8 (attendance etc) is amended as follows.

(2)ÌýÌýÌýÌý In subsection (1A)(a) (as originally enacted), for “the Secretary of State†there is substituted “an employment officer“.

(3)ÌýÌýÌýÌý In subsection (2), for paragraphs (a) to (c) there is substituted “provide for entitlement to a jobseeker's allowance to cease at such time as may be determined in accordance with any such regulations if, when a person fails to comply with such regulations, that person (or, if that person is a member of a joint-claim couple, either member of the couple) does not make prescribed contact with an employment officer within a prescribed period of the failure.â€

3

In section 16(3)(b) and 17(4) (in both places) for “good cause†there is substituted “a good reasonâ€.

4

In section 17A (employment schemes), in subsection (5)(c) for “jobseeker's agreement

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