{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-further-methods-of-recovery-regulations-2026/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-further-methods-of-recovery-regulations-2026/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2026/1069",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Further Methods of Recovery) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-further-methods-of-recovery-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“account holder” means any person who is a liable person or, in the case of a joint account, each of the other holders of the account (as read with paragraph 24(6) of Schedule 3ZA);\n“arrestment” has the meaning given in regulation 23(1);\n“electronic communication” has the meaning given in section 15(1) of the Electronic Communications Act 2000;\n“notice of a proposed penalty” has the meaning given in regulation 6(2);\n“pre-deduction variation notice” has the meaning given in regulation 17(2);\n“representations”, except in regulation 6(2) and regulation 14(5), means information and evidence given to the Secretary of State by an account holder in accordance with paragraph 5(2) (further requirements before making a direct deduction order), 12(2) (applications to vary) or 13(3) (variation) of Schedule 3ZA;\n“third party debt order” means an order made in accordance with the provisions of Part 72 of the Civil Procedure Rules 1998;\n“unique reference” has the meaning given in regulation 6(1).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See section 80A(4) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c. 5) for the definition of “liable person”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2000 c. 7. Section 15(1) was amended by the Communications Act 2003 (c. 21), Schedule 17, paragraph 158."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1998/3132. Part 72 was inserted by S.I. 2001/2792; amended by paragraph 1(2) of Schedule 11 to the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4) and S.I. 2001/4015, 2009/3390, 2012/505, 2014/407, 2023/788."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/1069/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:54:12.169058+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."
}