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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-work-focused-interviews-for-lone-parents-amendment-regulations-2003/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/400",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Work-focused Interviews for Lone Parents) Amendment Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-work-focused-interviews-for-lone-parents-amendment-regulations-2003",
  "path": "note",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Social Security (Work-focused Interviews for Lone Parents) and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/1926) (the Principal Regulations).\nRegulation 2(2) of these Regulations amends regulation 1(3)(g) of the Principal Regulations to provide that lone parents who are entitled to income support on 7th April 2003 and whose youngest child reaches the age of 5 years and 3 months after 7th April 2003 shall be required to take part in a work-focused interview from the date that child reaches that age.\nRegulation 2(3) of these Regulations amends regulation 4 of the Principal Regulations to extend the requirement for lone parents to participate in work-focused interviews to lone parents who make a claim for income support on or after 7th April 2003, regardless of the age of their youngest child.\nThese Regulations do not impose a charge on business.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/400/note",
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  },
  "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."
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