
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Jobseeker’s Allowance (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997 and shall come into operation on 1st December 1997.
2 
In regulation 47A of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 (jobseeking periods: periods of interruption of employment)—
(a) immediately before paragraph (a) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—“(za) where a linked period commenced before 7th October 1996 and is still current on 1st December 1997, any days of unemployment which form part of a period of interruption of employment where the last day of unemployment in that period of interruption of employment was no more than 8 weeks before the date upon which that linked period commenced;”;
(b) at the end, there shall be added “and, for the purposes of paragraph (za), a day shall be treated as being, or not being, a day of unemployment in accordance with section 25A of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 and with any regulations made under that section, as in operation on 6th October 1996”.
3 
In regulation 8(4)(a) of the Jobseeker’s Allowance (Transitional Provisions) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 (claims for entitlement to a jobseeker’s allowance) after “312 days” there shall be inserted “but only in so far as this sub-paragraph has effect in the case of any person in respect of any date falling before 1st December 1997”.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health and Social Services on
D. A. Baker
Assistant Secretary
10th November 1997.