{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-claims-and-payments-regulations-1987/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-claims-and-payments-regulations-1987/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1968",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-claims-and-payments-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Attendance in person",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) Every person who makes a claim for benefit (other than a jobseeker’s allowance) shall attend at such office or place and on such days and at such times as the Secretary of State or the Board may direct, for the purpose of furnishing certificates, documents, information and evidence under regulation 7, if reasonably so required by the Secretary of State.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 8(1) omitted (7.10.1996) by virtue of The Social Security (Claims and Payments) (Jobseekers Allowance Consequential Amendments) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/1460), regs. 1, 2(7)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 8(2) inserted (7.10.1996) by The Social Security (Claims and Payments) (Jobseekers Allowance Consequential Amendments) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/1460), regs. 1, 2(7)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 8(2) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Tax Credits (Claims and Payments) (Amendment) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/2572), regs. 1(1), 20, Sch. Pt. I"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1968/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:17:50.477745+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."
}