{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-regulations-2013/regulation-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-regulations-2013/regulation-17.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/378",
  "legislation_title": "The Jobseeker's Allowance Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "For the purposes of this Part—\n“current sanctionable failure” means a failure of the following kinds in relation to which the Secretary of State has not yet determined whether the amount of an award of benefit is to be reduced—\n(a)a sanctionable failure,\n(b)an ESA sanctionable failure, or\n(c)a UC sanctionable failure;\n“ESA sanctionable failure” means a failure by a claimant which is sanctionable under section 11J of the Welfare Reform Act 2007;\n“higher-level sanction” means a reduction of a jobseeker's allowance in accordance with section 6J of the Act;\n“low-level sanction” means a reduction of a jobseeker's allowance in accordance with section 6K of the Act for a sanctionable failure by the claimant to comply with—\n(a)a work-focused interview requirement under section 6B(1) of the Act;\n(b)a work preparation requirement under section 6C(1) of the Act;\n(c)a work search requirement under section 6D(1)(b) of the Act (requirement to take action specified by the Secretary of State to obtain work); or\n(d)a requirement under section 6G of the Act (connected requirements);\n“medium-level sanction” means a reduction of a jobseeker's allowance in accordance with section 6K of the Act for a sanctionable failure by the claimant to comply with—\n(a)a work search requirement under section 6D(1)(a) of the Act (requirement to take all reasonable action to obtain paid work); or\n(b)a work availability requirement under section 6E(1) of the Act (requirement to be available for work);\n“pre-claim failure” means a sanctionable failure listed in section 6J(3) of the Act;\n“reduction period” means the number of days for which a reduction in the amount of an award of a jobseeker's allowance is to have effect;\n“sanctionable failure” means a failure by a claimant which is sanctionable under section 6J or 6K of the Act;\n“total outstanding reduction period” means the total number of days for which no reduction has yet been applied for all of the claimant's higher-level sanctions, medium-level sanctions, low-level sanctions and reductions to which regulation 30 applies;\n“UC sanctionable failure” means a failure by a claimant which is sanctionable under section 26 or 27 of the Welfare Reform Act 2012.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 17 inserted (with application in accordance with reg. 2 of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Jobseekers Allowance, Employment and Support Allowance and Universal Credit) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/678), regs. 1, 6(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/378/regulation/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:03:37.987840+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."
}