{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-quarterly-work-focused-interviews-for-certain-lone-parents-regulations-2004/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-quarterly-work-focused-interviews-for-certain-lone-parents-regulations-2004/regulation-4.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/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Deferment of requirement to take part in an interview",
  "text": "(1) An officer may determine, in the case of a relevant person, that the requirement under regulation 2 to take part in an interview shall be deferred at the time the requirement to take part in an interview arises or applies because an interview would not at that time be—\n(a) of assistance to that relevant person; or\n(b) appropriate in the circumstances.\n(2) Where an officer determines in accordance with paragraph (1) that the requirement to take part in an interview shall be deferred, he shall also determine when that determination is made, the time when the requirement to take part in an interview is to apply in the relevant person’s case.\n(3) Where a requirement to take part in an interview has been deferred in accordance with paragraph (1) then until—\n(a) a determination is made under regulation 3(1);\n(b) the relevant person takes part in an interview; or\n(c) a relevant decision has been made in relation to that relevant person in accordance with regulation 6(3),\nthat relevant person shall be treated for the purposes of his continuing to be entitled to the full amount of a specified benefit which is payable apart from these Regulations as having complied with that requirement.",
  "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/4",
    "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."
}