147.—(1) A person shall be disqualified for receiving F900[jobseeker’s allowance] while he or she is—

(a) an inmate of an institution maintained wholly or partly out of public moneys or by a local authority,

(b) employed during any week under a F901[scheme provided by the Minister and known as Community Employment], or

(c) employed during any week under a F902[scheme provided by the Minister] and known as the Rural Social Scheme.

[1993 s125(3)]

(2) A person who has lost employment by reason of a stoppage of work which was due to a trade dispute at the factory, workshop, farm or other premises or place at which he or she was employed shall be disqualified for receiving F900[jobseeker’s allowance] so long as the stoppage of work continues, except in the case where the person has, during the stoppage of work, become bona fide employed elsewhere in the occupation which he or she usually follows or has become regularly engaged in some other occupation but this subsection shall not apply to a person who is not participating in or directly interested in the trade dispute which caused the stoppage of work.

[1993 s125(4)]

(3) Where separate branches of work which are commonly carried on as separate businesses in separate premises or at separate places are in any case carried on in separate departments of the same premises or at the same place, each of those departments, for the purposes of subsection (2), is deemed to be a separate factory, workshop or farm or separate premises or a separate place, as the case may be.

[1993 s125(5)]

(4) A person shall be disqualified for receiving F900[jobseeker’s allowance] for the period that may be determined by a deciding officer, but in any case not exceeding 9 weeks, where the person—

(a) has lost his or her employment through his or her own misconduct or has voluntarily left his or her employment without just cause,

F903[(b) has refused an offer of suitable employment,]

(c) F904[…]

(d) has failed or neglected to avail himself or herself of any reasonable opportunity of obtaining suitable employment,

and the period of disqualification shall begin on the day on which the loss or leaving of employment, refusal, failure or neglect, as the case may be, occurred.

F905[(4A) F906[…]]

[1993 s125(6)]

(5) For the purpose of this section, employment is not deemed to be suitable employment in the case of any person where it is employment in a situation vacant in consequence of a stoppage of work due to a trade dispute.

[1993 s125(7)]

F907[(6) Jobseeker’s allowance shall not be payable in respect of the same day or days as any of the following benefits:

(a) jobseeker’s benefit;

(b) jobseeker’s benefit (self-employed);

(c) jobseeker’s pay-related benefit.]