{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-jobcentre-plus-interviews-regulations-2001/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-jobcentre-plus-interviews-regulations-2001/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/3210",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Jobcentre Plus Interviews) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-jobcentre-plus-interviews-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Exemptions",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), persons who, as at the date on which the claim for a specified benefit is made or the requirement to take part in an interview under regulation 4 arises—\n(a) are engaged in remunerative work; or\n(b) are claiming, or are entitled to, a jobseeker’s allowance,\nshall be exempt from the requirement to take part in an interview in accordance with regulation 3 or 4.\n(2) Paragraph (1)(b) shall not apply where—\n(a) a joint-claim couple (as defined for the purposes of section 1(4) of the Jobseekers Act 1995 ) have claimed a jobseeker’s allowance; and\n(b) a member of that couple is a person to whom regulation 3D(1)(c) of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996 (further circumstances in which a joint-claim couple may be entitled to a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance) applies.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 7 revoked (30.9.2002) by Social Security (Jobcentre Plus Interviews) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/1703), reg. 1, Sch. 1 (with reg. 16(2)(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1995 c. 18; the definition of “joint-claim couple” was inserted by the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999, section 59 and Schedule 7, paragraph 2(4)(b)."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/207; regulation 3D was inserted by S.I. 2000/1978 and amended by S.I. 2001/518."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/3210/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:28:35.547813+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."
}