Social Welfare Act 2019

Amendment of section 126 of Act of 1997

10. Section 126 of the Act of 1997 is amended—

(a) in subsection (3)(a)—

(i) by the substitution of the following subparagraph for subparagraph (i):

“(i) illness benefit,”,

(ii) by the substitution of the following subparagraph for subparagraph (ii):

“(ii) jobseeker’s benefit,”,

and

(iii) by the insertion of the following subparagraph after subparagraph (ii):

“(iia) jobseeker’s benefit (self-employed),”,

(b) in subsection (3)(b), by the substitution of the following subparagraph for subparagraph (ii):

“(ii) except in the case of amounts so payable in respect of jobseeker’s benefit (self-employed), to be emoluments to which Chapter 4 of Part 42 is applied by section 984.”,

(c) in subsection (3)(c)(ii), by the substitution of “jobseeker’s benefit or jobseeker’s benefit (self-employed)” for “unemployment benefit”, and

(d) in subsection (4)(b), by the substitution of “jobseeker’s benefit or jobseeker’s benefit (self-employed)” for “unemployment benefit”.