{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-employment-zones-allocation-to-contractors-pilot-regulations-2006/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-employment-zones-allocation-to-contractors-pilot-regulations-2006/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2006/0110740238",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment Zones (Allocation to Contractors) Pilot Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-employment-zones-allocation-to-contractors-pilot-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Stages of an employment zone programme",
  "text": "(1) An employment zone programme shall consist of two stages—\n(a) the first stage shall last for a maximum period of 28 days excluding any public holidays;\n(b) the second stage shall last for a maximum period of 26 weeks.\n(2) A claimant begins to participate in the first stage of an employment zone programme on the day when he attends an initial interview with a programme adviser following a written notification of his selection for participation given under regulation 3 or 4.\n(3) A claimant shall cease to participate in the first stage on the day specified by an employment officer in a written notification to the claimant.\n(4) A claimant begins to participate in the second stage of an employment zone programme on the day specified by an employment officer in a written notification to the claimant.\n(5) A claimant shall cease to participate in the second stage on the day specified by an employment officer in a written notification to the claimant.\n(6) In this regulation—\n“public holiday” means Christmas Day, Good Friday or a day which is a bank holiday under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 in any part of Great Britain;\n“programme adviser” means an employment officer designated by the Secretary of State as an employment zone programme adviser.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1971 c.80."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2006/0110740238/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:21:27.367074+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."
}