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Entitlement to jobseeker’s benefit — amendments.
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16.— (1) Section 62 of the Principal Act is amended—
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(a) in subsection (1)(d) by substituting “7 consecutive days” for “6 consecutive days”,
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(b) in subsection (5)—
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(i) in paragraph (c) by substituting—
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(I) “4 days” for “3 days”, and
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(II) “7 consecutive days” for “6 consecutive days”,
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and
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(ii) by deleting paragraph (d),
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(c) by inserting the following subsection after subsection (9) (amended by section 4 of the Act of 2006):
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“(9A) In the case of a person to whom subsection (11) does not apply, the number of days of unemployment in respect of which that person shall be entitled to jobseeker’s benefit in any payment week shall be limited so that the total of—
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(a) the number of days in that payment week in respect of which jobseeker’s benefit is paid, and
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(b) the number of days in that payment week which are not days which form part of a period of interruption of employment,
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shall not exceed 6.
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(9B) In the case of a person to whom subsection (9A) applies, the amount payable by way of jobseeker’s benefit for any day of unemployment in a payment week shall be determined in accordance with subsections (10) and (10A).”,
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(d) in subsection (10) (inserted by section 16 of the Act of 2012) by substituting “Subject to subsections (10B) and (11),” for “Subject to subsection (10B),”,
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(e) in subsection (10C) (inserted by section 16 of the Act of 2012) by substituting “In this Chapter” for “Without prejudice to subsection (5)(d), in subsections (10) and (10A)”, and
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(f) in subsection (11) (amended by section 4 of the Act of 2006) by substituting “in any payment week” for “in any week”.
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(2) Section 67(8) of the Principal Act is amended by substituting “Subject to section 141(3C), for the purposes of this section,” for “For the purpose of this section,”.
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