{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-social-security-personal-independence-payment-regulations-2013/regulation-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-social-security-personal-independence-payment-regulations-2013/regulation-9.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2013/9780111532072",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Personal Independence Payment) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-social-security-personal-independence-payment-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Claimant may be called for a consultation to determine whether the claimant has limited or severely limited ability to carry out activities",
  "text": "(1) Where it falls to be determined whether C has limited ability or severely limited ability to carry out daily living activities or mobility activities, C may be required to do either or both of the following —\n(a) attend for and participate in a consultation in person;\n(b) participate in a consultation by telephone.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3), where C fails without good reason to attend for or participate in a consultation referred to in paragraph (1), a negative determination must be made.\n(3) Paragraph (2) does not apply unless —\n(a) written notice of the date, time and, where applicable, place for, the consultation is sent to C at least 7 days in advance; or\n(b) C agrees, whether in writing or otherwise, to accept a shorter period of notice of those matters.\n(4) In paragraph (3), reference to written notice includes notice sent by electronic communication where C has agreed to accept correspondence in that way and ‘electronic communication’ has the meaning given in section 15(1) of the Electronic Communications Act 2000.\n(5) In this regulation, a reference to consultation is to a consultation with a person approved by the Secretary of State.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2000 (c.7). Section 15(1) was amended by the Communications Act 2003 (c.21), section 406(1) and Schedule 17, paragraph 158."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2013/9780111532072/regulation/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:50:53.678524+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."
}