{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-jobseekers-allowance-regulations-2013/regulation-17",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2013/9780111531921",
  "legislation_title": "The Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-jobseekers-allowance-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "For the purposes of this Part—\n“ESA sanctionable failure” means a failure by a claimant which is sanctionable under section 11J of the Welfare Reform Act 2007;\n“higher-level sanction” means a reduction of a jobseeker’s allowance in accordance with section 6J of the Act;\n“low-level sanction” means a reduction of a jobseeker’s allowance in accordance with section 6K of the Act for a sanctionable failure by the claimant to comply with—\n(a) a work-focused interview requirement under section 6B(1) of the Act;\n(b) a work preparation requirement under section 6C(1) of the Act;\n(c) a work search requirement under section 6D(1)(b) of the Act (requirement to take action specified by the Secretary of State to obtain work); or\n(d) a requirement under section 6G of the Act (connected requirements);\n“medium-level sanction” means a reduction of a jobseeker’s allowance in accordance with section 6K of the Act for a sanctionable failure by the claimant to comply with—\n(a) a work search requirement under section 6D(1)(a) of the Act (requirement to take all reasonable action to obtain paid work); or\n(b) a work availability requirement under section 6E(1) of the Act (requirement to be available for work);\n“pre-claim failure” means a sanctionable failure listed in section 6J(3) of the Act;\n“reduction period” means the number of days for which a reduction in the amount of an award of a jobseeker’s allowance is to have effect;\n“sanctionable failure” means a failure by a claimant which is sanctionable under section 6J or 6K 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 higher-level sanctions, medium-level sanctions, low-level sanctions and reductions to which regulation 30 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/2013/9780111531921/regulation/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:50:56.180502+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."
}