PART IIICONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS

Notional capital

15.—(1) Both regulation 113(3A) of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations and regulation 51(3A) of the Income Support Regulations(1) (notional capital) shall be modified in their application to persons to whom this Part applies as if in sub-paragraph (b), after head (iii), there was added the following head—

“(iv)in the programme known as the intensive activity period of the New Deal pilots for 25 plus as defined for the purposes of the Social Security (New Deal Pilot) Regulations 2000 in regulation 2(1) of those Regulations but only to the extent that it is not used for a purpose specified in paragraph (3)(a)(ii).”.

(2) Paragraph (3A) of each of the regulations specified in paragraph (3) (which relate to notional capital) shall be modified in their application to persons to whom this Part applies as if in sub-paragraph (b), after head (iii), there was added the following head—

“(iv)in the programme known as the intensive activity period of the New Deal pilots for 25 plus as defined for the purposes of the Social Security (New Deal Pilot) Regulations 2000 in regulation 2(1) of those Regulations but only to the extent that it is not used for a purpose specified in paragraph (3)(a).”.

(3) The regulations to which paragraph (2) above refers are—

(a)regulation 34 of the Council Tax Benefit Regulations(2);

(b)regulation 37 of the Disability Working Allowance Regulations(3);

(c)regulation 34 of the Family Credit Regulations(4);

(d)regulation 43 of the Housing Benefit Regulations(5).