{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-regulations-northern-ireland-2008/regulation-54",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-regulations-northern-ireland-2008/regulation-54.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2008/280",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment and Support Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-regulations-northern-ireland-2008",
  "path": "regulation/54",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "54",
  "heading": "Requirement to take part in a work-focused interview",
  "text": "(1) The Department may require a claimant who satisfies the requirements in paragraph (2) to take part in one or more work-focused interviews as a condition of continuing to be entitled to the full amount of employment and support allowance payable to the claimant.\n(2) The requirements referred to in paragraph (1) are that the claimant—\n(a) is either—\n(i) entitled to an employment and support allowance, or\n(ii) a person in respect of whom an award has been made under regulation 146(1) (advance awards);\n(b) is not a member of the support group;\n(c) has not reached the age at which a woman of the same age as the claimant would attain pensionable age; ...\n(d) is not only entitled to a contributory allowance payable at a nil rate; and\n(e) is not a lone parent who is responsible for and a member of the same household as a child under one.\n(3) Any requirement to take part in a work-focused interview ceases to have effect if the claimant ceases to satisfy the requirements in paragraph (2).",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in reg. 54(2)(c) omitted (31.10.2011) by virtue of The Social Security (Work-focused Interviews for Lone Parents and Partners) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011 (S.R. 2011/368), regs. 1(1), 5(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 54(2)(e) and word inserted (31.10.2011) by The Social Security (Work-focused Interviews for Lone Parents and Partners) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011 (S.R. 2011/368), regs. 1(1), 5(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 54 in operation at 27.10.2008, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2008/280/regulation/54",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-12T03:38:16.781320+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."
}