{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-employment-and-support-allowance-regulations-2013/regulation-50",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2013/9780111531877",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-employment-and-support-allowance-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/50",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "50",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "For the purposes of this Part—\n“JSA sanctionable failure” means a failure by a claimant which is sanctionable under section 6K of the Jobseekers Act 1995;\n“low-level sanction” means a reduction of an employment and support allowance in accordance with section 11J of the Act for a sanctionable failure by the claimant to comply with—\n(a) a work-focused interview requirement imposed under section 11F(2) of the Act (persons subject to work preparation requirement and work-focused interview requirement);\n(b) a work preparation requirement imposed under section 11F(2) of the Act; or\n(c) a requirement under section 11G of the Act (connected requirements);\n“lowest-level sanction” means a reduction of an employment and support allowance in accordance with section 11J of the Act for a sanctionable failure by the claimant to comply with a requirement imposed under section 11E(2) of the Act (persons subject to work-focused interview requirement only);\n“reduction period” means the number of days for which a reduction in the amount of an award of an employment and support allowance is to have effect;\n“sanctionable failure” means a failure which is sanctionable under section 11J of the Act;\n“total outstanding reduction period” means the total number of days for which no reduction has yet been applied for all of the claimant’s low-level sanctions, lowest-level sanctions and reductions to which regulation 61 applies;\n“UC sanctionable failure” means a failure by a claimant which is sanctionable under section 26 or 27 of the Welfare Reform Act 2012.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2013/9780111531877/regulation/50",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:50:57.142115+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}