{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-quarterly-work-focused-interviews-for-certain-lone-parents-regulations-2004/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-quarterly-work-focused-interviews-for-certain-lone-parents-regulations-2004/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2004/2244",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Quarterly Work-focused Interviews for Certain Lone Parents) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-quarterly-work-focused-interviews-for-certain-lone-parents-regulations-2004",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Waiver of requirement to take part in an interview",
  "text": "(1) A requirement imposed by these Regulations to take part in an interview shall not apply where an officer determines that an interview would not be—\n(a) of assistance to the relevant person; or\n(b) appropriate in the circumstances.\n(2) A relevant person in relation to whom a requirement to take part in an interview has been waived under paragraph (1) above shall be treated for the purposes of regulation 2 as having complied with that requirement in respect of that interview.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/2244/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:19:26.235391+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."
}