{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-miscellaneous-amendments-and-transitional-and-savings-provision-regulations-2017/regulation-7",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2017/581",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment and Support Allowance (Miscellaneous Amendments and Transitional and Savings Provision) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-miscellaneous-amendments-and-transitional-and-savings-provision-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2008",
  "text": "(1) The Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2008 are amended as follows.\n(2) In paragraph (1) of regulation 2 (interpretation)—\n(a) in the definition for “main phase employment and support allowance” after “Act” insert “or where the claimant is a member of the work-related activity group”;\n(b) in the appropriate place insert—\n““member of the work-related activity group” means a claimant who has or is treated as having limited capability for work under Part 5 of these Regulations other than by virtue of regulation 30 of these Regulations;”.\n(3) In paragraph (1B) of regulation 7 (circumstances where the condition that the assessment phase has ended before entitlement to the support component arises does not apply)—\n(a) in sub-paragraph (a)(i) after “2(2) or 4(4) of the Act” insert “or the claimant was a member of the work-related activity group”;\n(b) in sub-paragraph (d)(i) after “2(2) or 4(4) of the Act” insert “or the claimant was a member of the work-related activity group”.\n(4) In column (1) of paragraph 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 4 (amounts)—\n(a) in sub-paragraph (1)(a) after “2(2) or 4(4) of the Act” insert “or who is a member of the work-related activity group”;\n(b) in sub-paragraph (2)(a) after “4(4) of the Act” insert “or who is a member of the work-related activity group and satisfies the conditions set out in Part 2 of Schedule 1 to the Act”;\n(c) in sub-paragraph (3)(c), (f) and (g) after “4(4) of the Act” insert “or the claimant is a member of the work-related activity group and satisfies the conditions set out in Part 2 of Schedule 1 to the Act”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2008/794; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2012/919, 2013/574, 2015/30, and 2017/204."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/581/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:11:08.338582+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."
}