Amendment of the Jobseeker’s Allowance (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 1996

4.—(1) The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 1996(1) shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this regulation.

(2) In paragraph (2) of regulation 3 (linking periods), in sub-paragraph (a), for the words “paragraph (3)” there shall be substituted the words “paragraph (5)”.

(3) In paragraph (6) of regulation 8 (claims for entitlement to a jobseeker’s allowance)—

(a)for the words “paragraph (3)” there shall be substituted the words “paragraph (4)”;

(b)after the word “applies” there shall be inserted the words “or 156 days in a case to which paragraph (5) applies”.

(4) In paragraph (3) of regulation 9 (further provisions applying to a continuing entitlement to a jobseeker’s allowance), in sub-paragraph (b)—

(a)at the end of head (i) there shall be inserted the word “or”;

(b)in head (ii), after the words “that day” there shall be inserted the words “is after the last day of the transitionally protected period and”;

(c)at the end of head (ii), “; or” shall be omitted;

(d)head (iii) shall be omitted.

(5) In paragraph (7) of regulation 10 (transitionally protected period), after the words “paragraph 1 of” there shall be inserted the words “Part I of”.