Supplementary Benefit (Conditions of Entitlement) Amendment Regulations 1981
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1981/99 |
| Year | 1981 |
1981 No. 99
SOCIAL SECURITY
The Supplementary Benefit (Conditions of Entitlement) Amendment Regulations 198129thJanuary 1981
30thJanuary 1981
2ndFebruary 1981
The Secretary of State for Social Services, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 5(b) and 6(2) of the Supplementary Benefits Act 1976(a) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, without having referred any proposals on the matter to the Social Security Advisory Committee since it appears to him that by reason of urgency it is inexpedient to do so (b), hereby makes the following regulations:—
Citation and commencement
1. These regulations, which may be cited as the Supplementary Benefit (Conditions of Entitlement) Amendment Regulations 1981, amend the Supplementary Benefit (Conditions of Entitlement) Regulations 1980 (c) (hereinafter referred to as "the principal regulations") and shall come into operation on 2nd February 1981.
Amendment of regulation 2 of the principal regulations
2. In regulation 2 of the principal regulations (interpretation), in paragraph (1), the definition of "relevant education" shall be omitted.
Amendment of regulation 7 of the principal regulations
3. In regulation 7 of the principal regulations (circumstances in which persons are to be treated as available for employment), for paragraph (2) there shall be substituted the following paragraph:—
"(2) A claimant who is attending for not more than 21 hours a week a course of education at an establishment recognised by the Secretary of State as being, or as comparable to, a college or school or a course of training or instruction analogous to a course for which a training allowance would be payable shall be treated as available for work if—
(a) 1976 c. 71; the Act (other than sections 31, 32, 35 and 36 and Schedules 4 and 6 to 8) as amended is set out in Part II of Schedule 2 to the Social Security Act 1980 (c. 30).
(b) See Social Security Act 1980 section 10(2)(a).
(c) S.I. 1980/1568.
(a) he is prepared to terminate the course immediately a suitable vacancy becomes available to him;
(b) he has not terminated an employment or a course of education which was for more than 21 hours a week for the purpose of attending the course; and
(c) either he is aged less than 21 or, in the period immediately preceding the commencement of the course, he was in receipt of an allowance and had been registered and available for work for not less than 12 months pursuant to section 5.".
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