{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-jobcentre-plus-interviews-for-partners-regulations-2003/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-jobcentre-plus-interviews-for-partners-regulations-2003/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/1886",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Jobcentre Plus Interviews for Partners) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-jobcentre-plus-interviews-for-partners-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation and application",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“the 1998 Act” means the Social Security Act 1998 ;\n“benefit week” means any period of seven days corresponding to the week in respect of which the relevant specified benefit is due to be paid;\n“claimant” means a claimant of a specified benefit who has a partner to whom these Regulations apply;\n“couple” means—\n(a)two people who are married to, or civil partners of, each other and are members of the same household; or\n(b)two people who are not married to, or civil partners of, each other but are living together as if they were a married couple or civil partners;\n“interview” means a work-focused interview with a partner which is conducted for any or all of the following purposes—\n(a)assessing the partner’s prospects for existing or future employment (whether paid or voluntary);\n(b)assisting or encouraging the partner to enhance his prospects of such employment;\n(c)identifying activities which the partner may undertake to strengthen his existing or future prospects of employment;\n(d)identifying current or future employment or training opportunities suitable to the partner’s needs; and\n(e)identifying educational opportunities connected with the existing or future employment prospects or needs of the partner;\n“officer” means a person who is an officer of, or who is providing services to or exercising functions of, the Secretary of State;\n“partner” means a person who is a member of the same couple as the claimant, or, in a case where the claimant has more than one partner, a person who is a partner of the claimant by reason of a polygamous marriage, but only where—\n(a)the claimant has been awarded a specified benefit at a higher rate referable to that partner; and\n(b)both the partner and the claimant have attained the age of 18 but have not attained pensionable age;\n“pensionable age”, in the case of a man born before 6th April 1955, means the age when a woman born on the same day as the man would attain pensionable age;\n“polygamous marriage” means any marriage during the subsistence of which a party to it is married to more than one person and the ceremony of marriage took place under the law of a country which permits polygamy;\n“specified benefit” means a benefit to which section 2AA applies.\n(2) For the purposes of these Regulations a person is to be treated as responsible for, and a member of the same household as, a child only where the person would be treated as being responsible for, and a member of the same household as, such a child under regulations 15 and 16 of the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987, if references in those Regulations to income support were to a specified benefit.\n(2) ...regulations 3 to 13 apply to a partner in circumstances where on or after 12th April 2004 the claimant’s award of a specified benefit is being administered from an office of the Department for Work and Pensions which is designated by the Secretary of State as a Jobcentre Plus Office and the claimant has been continuously entitled to the benefit for 26 weeks or longer.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) substituted (2.12.2019) by The Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1458), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 66"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) substituted (6.4.2010) by Social Security (Work-focused Interviews etc.) (Equalisation of State Pension Age) Amendment Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/563), regs. 1, 7(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (6.4.2010) by Social Security (Work-focused Interviews etc.) (Equalisation of State Pension Age) Amendment Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/563), regs. 1, 7(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 2(2) inserted (31.10.2011) by The Social Security (Work-focused Interviews for Lone Parents and Partners) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/2428), regs. 1, 4(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(2) omitted (24.4.2006) by virtue of Social Security (Working Neighbourhoods) Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/909), regs. 1(1), 2(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1998 c. 14."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "A list of offices designated as Jobcentre Plus Offices is available from the Department for Work and Pensions at the following address: Jobcentre Plus Implementation Project, Jobcentre Plus Head Office, Level 1, Steel City House, West Street, Sheffield, S1 2GQ."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/1886/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:14:49.550624+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."
}