{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-jobcentre-plus-interviews-regulations-2002/regulation-4A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-jobcentre-plus-interviews-regulations-2002/regulation-4A.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/1703",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Jobcentre Plus Interviews) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-jobcentre-plus-interviews-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/4A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4A",
  "heading": "Requirement for certain lone parents to take part in an interview",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies to a lone parent who—\n(a) is aged 18 or over and is entitled to income support and is a person to whom paragraph 1 (lone parents) of Schedule 1B to the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 applies; and\n(b) does not fall within any other paragraph of that Schedule; ...\n(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) Subject to regulations 7 to 9, a lone parent to whom this regulation applies is required to take part in one or more interviews as a condition of continuing to be entitled to the full amount of benefit which is payable to him apart from these Regulations.\n(3) A lone parent who—\n(a) is required to take part in an interview under this regulation, or\n(b) has had a requirement to take part in an interview under this regulation ... deferred,\nis not required to take part in an interview under regulation 4ZA unless this regulation ceases to apply to him.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 4A inserted (24.11.2008) by Social Security (Lone Parents and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/3051), regs. 1(2), 8(3) (with reg. 13, Sch. Pt. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4A(1)(a) inserted (31.10.2011) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 3) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/2425), regs. 1(2), 14(4)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in reg. 4A(1) inserted (28.4.2014) by The Income Support (Work-Related Activity) and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1097) , regs. 1(1) , 14(2)(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 4A(1)(c) omitted (28.4.2014) by virtue of The Income Support (Work-Related Activity) and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1097) , regs. 1(1) , 14(2)(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Reg. 4A(2) substituted (28.4.2014) by The Income Support (Work-Related Activity) and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1097), regs. 1(1), 14(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4A(3)(b) omitted (28.4.2014) by virtue of The Income Support (Work-Related Activity) and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1097) , regs. 1(1) , 14(2)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4A(3) substituted (31.10.2011) by The Social Security (Work-focused Interviews for Lone Parents and Partners) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/2428), regs. 1, 3(6)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/1703/regulation/4A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:53:39.609799+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."
}