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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-sanctions-amendment-regulations-2012/regulation-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2012/2756",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment and Support Allowance (Sanctions) (Amendment) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-sanctions-amendment-regulations-2012",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement, application and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Employment and Support Allowance (Sanctions) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 and come into force on 3rd December 2012.\n(2) These Regulations apply to a claimant only in relation to a failure to take part in a work-focused interview or to undertake work-related activity which occurs on or after 3rd December 2012.\n(3) In these Regulations “the ESA Regulations” means the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2008.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2008/794."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/2756/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:14:42.740251+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."
}