{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-joint-claims-consequential-amendments-regulations-2000/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-joint-claims-consequential-amendments-regulations-2000/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/1982",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Joint Claims: Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-joint-claims-consequential-amendments-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Social Security (Work-focused Interviews) Regulations 2000",
  "text": "In regulation 5 of the Social Security (Work-focused Interviews) Regulations 2000 (exemptions)—\n(a) in paragraph (1), at the beginning of both sub-paragraphs (b) and (c), there shall be inserted the words “ except in a case to which paragraph (1A) applies, ”;\n(b) after paragraph (1) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—\n“(1A) Notwithstanding paragraph (1)(b) and (c), a claim for a specified benefit shall give rise to an interview under regulation 4 where—\n(a) at the time the claim is made, the person making the claim is a member of a joint-claim couple as defined for the purposes of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996 ; and\n(b) it has been decided that that person is a person to whom a paragraph of Schedule A1 to those Regulations applies (categories of members of joint-claim couples who are not required to satisfy the conditions in section 1(2B)(b) of the Jobseekers Act 1995).”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 2000/897."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/207; Schedule A1 was inserted by S.I. 2000/1978."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/1982/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:05:12.031664+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."
}