{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-regulations-2013/regulation-45",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-regulations-2013/regulation-45.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/379",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/45",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "45",
  "heading": "Claimant commitment – exceptions",
  "text": "(1) A claimant may be entitled to an employment and support allowance without having accepted a claimant commitment if the Secretary of State considers that—\n(a) the claimant cannot accept a claimant commitment because they lack capacity to do so; or\n(b) there are exceptional circumstances in which it would be unreasonable to expect the person to accept a claimant commitment.\n(2) A claimant may be entitled to an employment and support allowance without having accepted a claimant commitment if the claimant is terminally ill.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 45(1): reg. 45 renumbered as reg. 45(1) (15.2.2022) by The Universal Credit and Employment and Support Allowance (Claimant Commitment Exceptions) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/60), regs. 1(1), 3(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 45(2) inserted (15.2.2022) by The Universal Credit and Employment and Support Allowance (Claimant Commitment Exceptions) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/60), regs. 1(1), 3(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/379/regulation/45",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:03:36.671940+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."
}