{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-notification-of-change-of-circumstances-regulations-2001/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-notification-of-change-of-circumstances-regulations-2001/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/3252",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Notification of Change of Circumstances) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-notification-of-change-of-circumstances-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Change affecting jobseeker’s allowance",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (1ZA) and (1A), where the benefit affected by the change of circumstances is a jobseeker’s allowance, notice must be given ...to the Secretary of State ...at the office that the claimant is required to attend in accordance with a notification given to him under regulation 23 of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996\n(a) in writing or by telephone (unless the Secretary of State determines in any particular case that notice must be in writing or may be given otherwise than in writing or by telephone); or\n(b) in writing if in any class of case he requires written notice (unless he determines in any particular case to accept notice given otherwise than in writing).\n(1ZA) Where the notice in writing referred to in paragraph (1) is given or sent by an electronic communication that notice must be given or sent in accordance with the provisions set out in Schedule 9ZC to the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987 (electronic communication).\n(1A) In such cases and subject to such conditions as the Secretary of State may specify, notice may be given to the Secretary of State—\n(a) where the change of circumstances is a birth or death, through a relevant authority, or a county council in England, by personal attendance at an office specified by that authority or county council, provided the Secretary of State has agreed with that authority or county council for it to facilitate such notification;\n(b) where the change of circumstances is a death, by telephone to a telephone number specified for that purpose by the Secretary of State.\n(2) In paragraph (1) “Secretary of State” includes a person designated as an employment officer by an order made by the Secretary of State under section 8(3) of the Jobseekers Act 1995 .\n(3) In paragraph (1A) “relevant authority” has the same meaning as in regulation 4(2).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(1) inserted (5.4.2010) by Social Security (Notification of Changes of Circumstances) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/444), regs. 1, 4(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(1) substituted (20.6.2011) by Social Security (Electronic Communications) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1498), arts. 1(1), 6(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(1) omitted (10.4.2006) by virtue of Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No.2) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/832), regs. 1(2), 6(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(1) omitted (10.4.2006) by virtue of Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No.2) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/832), regs. 1(2), 6(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Reg. 3(1)(a)(b) added (10.4.2006) by Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No.2) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/832), regs. 1(2), 6(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Reg. 3(1ZA) inserted (20.6.2011) by Social Security (Electronic Communications) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1498), arts. 1(1), 6(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(1A) inserted (5.4.2010) by Social Security (Notification of Changes of Circumstances) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/444), regs. 1, 4(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(2) substituted (5.4.2010) by Social Security (Notification of Changes of Circumstances) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/444), regs. 1, 4(2)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Reg. 3(3) inserted (5.4.2010) by Social Security (Notification of Changes of Circumstances) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/444), regs. 1, 4(2)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/207. Relevant amending instrument is S.I. 2000/2194."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1995 c. 18. Section 8(3) was inserted by paragraph 29(3)(b) of Schedule 8 to the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999 (c. 30)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/3252/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:28:10.885983+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."
}