{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-regulations-northern-ireland-2008/regulation-61",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-regulations-northern-ireland-2008/regulation-61.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/61",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "61",
  "heading": "Failure to take part in a work-focused interview",
  "text": "(1) A claimant who is required to take part in a work-focused interview but fails to do so must show good cause for that failure within 5 working days of the date on which the Department gives notification of that failure.\n(2) The Department must determine whether a claimant who is required to take part in a work-focused interview has failed to do so and, if so, whether the claimant has shown good cause for that failure in accordance with paragraph (1).\n(3) In deciding whether a person has shown good cause for the failure, the Department must take account of all the circumstances of the case including in particular the person’s physical or mental health or condition.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 61(3) substituted (12.7.2011) by The Employment and Support Allowance (Work-related Activity) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011 (S.R. 2011/265), regs. 1, 10(6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 61(3) omitted (coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(1) of the amending Rule) by virtue of The Employment and Support Allowance (Sanctions) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/240), regs. 1(1), 3 (with reg. 1(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 61 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/61",
    "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."
}