SOCIAL SECURITY Citation, commencement and interpretation 1 1 This Order may be cited as the New Deal (Miscellaneous Provisions) Order 1998 and shall come into force on 2nd March 1998. 2 In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires— “facilities” means facilities provided for the participant in pursuance of one or more of the New Deal Components; “the New Deal" means the arrangements known by that name and made under section 2 of the 1973 Act for which only persons who are aged 18 years or over and less than 26 years immediately prior to entry are eligible and which are designed to help New Deal Participants to obtain work or to improve their prospects of obtaining work; “the New Deal Components" means any of the following, that is to say, the programmes of employment or employment-related training under the New Deal known individually as “the Full-time Education and Training Option", “the Voluntary Sector Option" ,“the Employment Option” and “the Environment Task Force Option"; “trading receipt” means, in relation to a New Deal Participant under the Employment Option, any payment made to him in consideration of goods or services supplied by him in the course of his participation under that option; “training allowance" means a payment made directly by the Secretary of State to a New Deal Participant in connection with his participation in one or more of the New Deal components; and a person is, or, as the case may be, was, at any material time, a “New Deal Participant"if he is, or, as the case may be, was, at that time, using facilities .... Treatment of persons and payments for the purposes of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992, the Jobseekers Act 1995 and specified subordinate legislation 2 1 The provisions of this article apply for the purposes of— a Part I of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992, b the Jobseekers Act 1995 and c the subordinate legislation specified in the Schedule to this Order. 2 If, for any period or periods commencing with or falling after the date on which this Order comes into force, during which a person is a New Deal Participant and is participating in either the Full-time Education and Training Option, the Voluntary Sector Option or the Environment Task Force Option, that person receives, or is eligible to receive, a training allowance, he is to be treated for that period or those periods and in respect of his participation as not being employed but as participating in arrangements for training under section 2 of the 1973 Act; and accordingly any payment made to such a person during that period or those periods in connection with his use of facilities shall be treated in the same manner as a payment of training allowance made in respect of such training. 3 If, for any period or periods commencing with or falling after the date on which this paragraph comes into force, during which a person is a New Deal Participant and is participating in the Employment Option in a capacity other than that of employee, that person receives, or is eligible to receive, a training allowance, he is to be treated for that period or those periods and in respect of his participation as not being employed but as participating in arrangements for training under section 2 of the 1973 Act; and accordingly any payment, other than a trading receipt, made to such a person during that period or those periods in connection with his use of facilities shall be treated in the same manner as a payment of training allowance made in respect of such training. Signed by order of the Secretary of State Andrew Smith Minister of State, Department for Education and Employment