The Housing Benefit, Council Tax Benefit and Supply of Information (Jobseeker’s Allowance) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 1996

Amendment of regulation 2 of the Housing Benefit Regulations

2.—(1) Regulation 2 of the Housing Benefit Regulations (interpretation) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2) In paragraph (1)—

(a)in the definition of “appropriate DSS office”(1) for the words “unemployment benefit” there shall be substituted the words “a jobseeker’s allowance”;

(b)after the definition of “attendance allowance” there shall be inserted the following definition—

““the benefit Acts” means the Contributions and Benefits Act and the Jobseekers Act 1995(2);”;

(c)after the definition of “housing association” there shall be inserted the following definition—

• ““an income-based jobseeker’s allowance” has the same meaning in these Regulations as it has in the Jobseekers Act 1995 by virtue of section 1(4) of that Act;”.

(3) After paragraph (3), there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

“(3A) For the purposes of these Regulations, a person is on an income-based jobseeker’s allowance on any day in respect of which an income-based jobseeker’s allowance is payable to him and on any day—

(a)in respect of which he satisfies the conditions for entitlement to an income-based jobseeker’s allowance but where the allowance is not paid in accordance with section 19 of the Jobseekers Act 1995 (circumstances in which a jobseeker’s allowance is not payable); or

(b)which is a waiting day for the purposes of paragraph 4 of Schedule 1 to that Act and which falls immediately before a day in respect of which an income-based jobseeker’s allowance is payable to him or would be payable to him but for section 19 of that Act.”.