{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-regulations-2008/regulation-62",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-regulations-2008/regulation-62.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/794",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/62",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "62",
  "heading": "Contracting out certain functions relating to work-focused interviews",
  "text": "(1) Any function of the Secretary of State specified in paragraph (2) may be exercised by, or by employees of, such person (if any) as may be authorised by the Secretary of State.\n(2) The functions are any function under—\n(a) regulation 54(1) (requirement to take part in a work-focused interview);\n(b) regulation 56(1) and (2) (notification requirement);\n(c) regulation 57(1)(b) and (c) (taking part in a work-focused interview);\n(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(e) regulation 59(1) and (3) (deferral of requirement to take part in a work-focused interview);\n(f) regulation 60 (requirement to take part in a work-focused interview not to apply).",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 62(2)(d) omitted (1.6.2011) by virtue of The Employment and Support Allowance (Work-Related Activity) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/1349), regs. 1, 16"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/794/regulation/62",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-06T03:37:55.280707+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."
}