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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Jobseeker’s Allowance (Project Work Pilot Scheme) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 26th May 1997.
(2) These Regulations shall cease to have effect on 25th May 1998, unless revoked with effect from an earlier date.
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(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—
 “the Act” means the Jobseekers Act 1995;
 “appropriate office” means an office of the Department for Education and Employment which is identified in the Schedule to these Regulations and which a relevant person is required to attend in accordance with a notice under regulation 23 of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations;
 “benefit” means income support, unemployment benefit or jobseeker’s allowance or any earnings credited to a person in accordance with regulations made under section 22(5) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 or section 13(4) of the Social Security Act 1975 and “receiving benefit” means receiving benefit which that person has claimed and received as an unemployed person or in accordance with Part I of the Act;
 “employment interview” means in relation to a relevant person, an interview in respect of which he has received a notice under regulation 23 of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations requiring him to attend an interview to discuss his prospects of work;
 “employment officer” means a person who is an employment officer for the purposes of section 19 of the Act;
 “the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations” means the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996;
 “made a claim for jobseeker’s allowance” includes treated as having made a claim for the allowance and treated as having an award of the allowance in accordance with regulations 5, 6 or 7 of the Jobseeker’s Allowance (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 1996;
 “Project Work” means the programme provided in pursuance of arrangements made by the Secretary of State under section 2 of the Employment and Training Act 1973 known as Project Work and which consists of a programme of work experience and job search help lasting for any individual for an aggregate of 13 weeks;
 “relevant person” means a person to whom regulation 3 applies;
 “week” means any period of 7 consecutive days.
(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, a reference
(a) to a numbered regulation is to the regulation in these Regulations bearing that number;
(b) in a regulation to a numbered paragraph is to the paragraph in that regulation bearing that number; and
(c) in a paragraph to a lettered or numbered sub-paragraph is to the sub-paragraph in that paragraph bearing that letter or number.
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(1) These Regulations shall apply to any person who
(a) receives, or has received, a notice under regulation 23 of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations requiring him to attend an employment interview to take place on or after 24th February 1997 at an appropriate office and is, or was, aged 18 or over but under 51 as at the date upon which he receives or received that notice and
(b) has made a claim for jobseeker’s allowance as at the date upon which he receives or received the notice referred to in sub-paragraph (a) and has, or had been, receiving benefit for a period of two years as at that date—
(i) without any period of interruption, or
(ii) with a period of interruption which did not exceed 28 days, or
(iii) with a number of periods of interruption, none of which exceeded 28 days.
(2) Any period of interruption which did not exceed 28 days shall be taken into account in calculating the period of two years referred to in paragraph (1).
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(1) In relation to a person to whom paragraph (2) applies, “employment programme” in section 19 of the Act means, in addition to the programmes listed in regulation 75 of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations, Project Work.
(2) This paragraph applies to any person to whom regulation 3 applies and who has been given or sent a notice in writing by an employment officer advising him that if he fails to participate in Project Work his benefit could cease to be payable or could be payable at a lower rate.
(3) In relation to a person to whom paragraph (2) applies, for sub-paragraph (ii) of paragraph (a) of regulation 69 of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations there shall be substituted the following—“
(ii) either—(aa) where the determination mentioned in (i) above does not relate to Project Work, on a previous occasion the jobseeker’s allowance was determined not to be payable to him in circumstances falling within section 19(5), or(bb) where the determination mentioned in (i) above relates to Project Work, on a previous occasion the jobseeker’s allowance was determined not to be payable to him in circumstances falling within section 19(5) that relate to project work, and”.
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Without prejudice to any other circumstances in which a person may be regarded as having good cause for any act or omission for the purposes of section 19(5)(b) of the Act, and in addition to the circumstances listed in regulation 73 of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations, a person to whom regulation 4(2) applies is to be regarded as having good cause for any act or omission in relation to Project Work for the purposes of section 19(5)(b) where
(a) there is no place available for him on Project Work or
(b) he has already participated in Project Work for one continuous period of 13 weeks or two or more periods amounting in total to 13 weeks.
Eric Forth
Minister of State,
Department for Education and Employment
10th March 1997
SCHEDULE
Regulation 2(1)


Region District Appropriate Offices
London and South East East London Barking ESJCityside ESJDagenham ESJEast Ham ESJEast Ham Central ESJHornchurch ESJIsle of Dogs ESJPlaistow ESJPoplar ESJRomford ESJStratford ESJ
 North East London Hackney A ESJHackney B ESJIlford ESJSeven Kings ESJLeyton ESJLoughton ESJLeytonstone ESJShoreditch ESJVictoria Park ESJWalthamstow ESJ
 Brighton Brighton (Pavilion) ESJBrighton (Phoenix) ESJBrighton (Regent) ESJHove ESJLewes ESJNewhaven ESJ
 Harlow Bishops Stortford ESJHarlow ESJHertford ESJ
 Stevenage Hatfield ESJStevenage ESJWaltham Cross ESJWelwyn Garden City ESJ
 Portsmouth Havant ESJPortsmouth (Central) ESJPortsmouth (North) ESJCosham ESJ
East Midlands and Eastern North Norfolk Norwich (Kiln House) ESJDereham ESJ
 South Norfolk and Waveney Wymondham ESJ
 Cambridgeshire Peterborough ESJMarch ESJ
 South Derbyshire Belper ESJDerby (Wardwick) ESJDerby (Forester) ESJDerby (Normanton) ESJDerby (St Peter's) ESJHeanor, ESJIlkeston, ESJLong Eaton, ESJ
 Leicester city Leicester (Aquis House) ESJLeicester (Charles St) ESJLeicester (Eldon St) ESJLeicester (Highcross St) ESJWigston ESJ
 Greater Nottinghamshire Arnold ESJBulwell ESJHucknall ESJBeeston ESJNetherfield ESJNottingham (Castle Boulevard) ESJNottingham (Watercourt) ESJ
South West Avon Outer Bath ESJMidsomer Norton ESJ
 Bristol Central Bristol Central ESJBedminster ESJBishopsworth ESJEaston ESJFilton, ESJKnowle ESJWestbury-on-Trym ESJShirehampton ESJ
 Avon Outer Keynsham ESJKingswood ESJYate ESJClevedon ESJWeston Super Mare ESJ
West Midlands Sandwell Cradley Heath ESJOldbury ESJSmethwick (South Road) ESJTipton ESJWednesbury ESJWest Bromwich ESJ
Dudley Dudley ESJKingswinford ESJHalesowen ESJStourbridge ESJMerry Hill ESJ
 North Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent ESJBurslem ESJCheadle ESJHanley ESJKidsgrove ESJLongton ESJNewcastle-under-Lyme ESJLeek ESJUttoxeter ESJ
Yorkshire and Humberside Bradford Bradford (Easterbrook) ESJBradford (50 Vicar Lane) ESJShipley ESJ
 Wakefield and Kirklees Spen Valley ESJHuddersfield ESJ
 South Humber Grimsby (Bridge House) ESJGrimsby (Viking House) ESJImmingham ESJ
North West West Penine Bury ESJRadcliffe ESJ
 Preston Preston ESJBamber Bridge ESJChorley ESJLeyland ESJ
 Bolton Bolton 1 ESJBolton 2 ESJFarnworth ESJWesthoughton ESJHorwich ESJWorsley ESJ
 Wigan Ashton-in-Makerfield ESJAtherton ESJHindley ESJWigan (Hallgate) ESJWigan (King St) ESJLeigh ESJ
 South West Lancashire St Helens (Barrow House) ESJSt Helens (College St) ESJ
Northern Gateshead and South Tyne Jarrow ESJSouth Shields
Scotland Borders, East and Midlothian Dalkeith ESJLoanhead ESJMusselburgh ESJPennicuik ESJ
 Edinburgh Edinburgh C ESJEdinburgh (High Riggs) ESJWester Hailes ESJLeith ESJPortobello ESJ
 Fife Cowdenbeath ESJDunfermline ESJInverkeithing ESJ
Lanarkshire West Airdrie ESJBellshill ESJBlantyre ESJCoatbridge ESJUddingston ESJHamilton ESJ
 Lanarkshire Carluke ESJLanark ESJLarkhall ESJMotherwell ESJShotts ESJWishaw ESJ
 Tayside Dundee (Gellatly St) ESJDundee (Wellgate) ESJ
Wales Heads of the Valley & Caerphilly Bargoed ESJBlackwood ESJMerthyr Tydfil ESJNewbridge ESJPontlottyn ESJTreharris ESJYstrad Mynach ESJ
 Outer Swansea Cymmer ESJNeath ESJPort Talbot ESJGlynneath ESJYstradgynlais ESJPortardawe ESJ
 Inner Swansea Gorseinon ESJMorriston ESJSwansea ESJ