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Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 5 October 2006 - onwards
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63. Condition for receipt (optional contributors).

(1) It shall be a condition for the receipt of jobseeker's benefit in respect of any day by a person engaged in share fishing that -

(a) it is not a day on which he or she is engaged in share fishing and it is a day in respect of which he or she makes reasonable efforts to obtain such work, and

(b) there was no work on, or in connection with, the fishing vessel of which he or she is a member of the crew available for him or her on that day because -

(i) as a consequence of weather conditions, the fishing vessel could not reasonably have put to sea for the purposes of fishing, or

(ii) the fishing vessel was undergoing repairs or maintenance, not being repairs or maintenance constituting work within the meaning of subsection (2).