{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-zones-regulations-2003/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-zones-regulations-2003/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/2438",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment Zones Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-zones-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Stages of employment zone programme",
  "text": "(1) An employment zone programme shall consist of two stages—\n(a) the first stage shall last for a maximum period of 28 days excluding public holidays;\n(b) the second stage shall last for a maximum period of 26 weeks.\n(2) A claimant begins to participate in the first stage of an employment zone programme on the day when he attends an initial interview with an employment officer who is an employment zone programme adviser following a direction given under regulation 2 or 3.\n(3) A claimant shall cease to participate in the first stage on such day as may be specified by an employment officer in a written notification to the claimant.\n(4) A claimant begins to participate in the second stage of an employment zone programme on the day specified by an employment officer in a written notification to the claimant.\n(5) A claimant shall cease to participate in the second stage on such day as may be specified by an employment officer in a written notification to the claimant.\n(6) In this regulation “public holiday” means Christmas Day, Good Friday or a day which is a bank holiday under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 in any part of Great Britain.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(1)(a) substituted (30.7.2005) by Employment Zones (Amendment) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/1744), regs. 1, 2(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(3) substituted (30.7.2005) by Employment Zones (Amendment) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/1744), regs. 1, 2(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(5) substituted (30.7.2005) by Employment Zones (Amendment) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/1744), regs. 1, 2(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 4(6) inserted (30.7.2005) by Employment Zones (Amendment) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/1744), regs. 1, 2(g)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/2438/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:58:01.402829+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."
}