{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-jobseekers-allowance-work-for-your-benefit-pilot-scheme-regulations-2010/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-jobseekers-allowance-work-for-your-benefit-pilot-scheme-regulations-2010/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2010/9780111493496",
  "legislation_title": "The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Work for Your Benefit Pilot Scheme) Regulations 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-jobseekers-allowance-work-for-your-benefit-pilot-scheme-regulations-2010",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Failure to participate in the Scheme",
  "text": "(1) A person (“P”) is to be regarded as having failed to comply with these Regulations where P—\n(a) refused or failed to accept or take up a place on the Scheme notified to P by an officer of the Secretary of State;\n(b) gave up a place on the Scheme;\n(c) lost a place on the Scheme as the result of misconduct;\n(d) failed to attend at a place or time notified to P by a Scheme provider;\n(e) failed to provide answers to questions asked by a Scheme provider and appropriate information about—\n(i) P’s educational qualifications;\n(ii) P’s employment history;\n(iii) any vocational training P has undertaken;\n(iv) any skills or experience P has acquired which fit P for employment or self-employment;\n(v) the steps taken by P to obtain employment or to improve P’s chances of obtaining employment;\n(vi) P’s aspirations for future employment or self-employment; and\n(vii) P’s work-related abilities;\n(f) refused or failed to participate in a work experience placement of which P was notified by a Scheme provider;\n(g) refused or failed to participate in arrangements made by a Scheme provider to assist participants with job search; or\n(h) refused or failed to carry out a reasonable instruction given to P by a Scheme provider with a view to assisting P to obtain employment.\n(2) In this regulation—\n“Scheme” includes any element of the Scheme provided in connection with arrangements made by the Secretary of State in accordance with section 17B(1) (section 17A: supplemental) of the Act;\n“Scheme provider” means a person with whom the Secretary of State has made arrangements in relation to P in accordance with that section or who is providing facilities in relation to P under the arrangements.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See section 17B(5) of the Act for the meaning of “facilities”."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2010/9780111493496/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:55:21.942061+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."
}