{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-work-focused-interviews-for-lone-parents-and-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2000/regulation-2ZA",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-work-focused-interviews-for-lone-parents-and-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2000/regulation-2ZA.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/1926",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Work-focused Interviews for Lone Parents) and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-work-focused-interviews-for-lone-parents-and-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/2ZA",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2ZA",
  "heading": "Requirement for certain lone parents to take part in an interview",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies to a lone parent if—\n(a) he is entitled to income support and is a person to whom paragraph 1 (lone parents) of Schedule 1B to the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 applies; and\n(b) no other paragraph of that Schedule applies to him; ...\n(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) Subject to regulations 4 and 5, a lone parent to whom this regulation applies is required to take part in one or more interviews as a condition of continuing to be entitled to the full amount of benefit which is payable to him apart from these Regulations.\n(3) A lone parent who—\n(a) is required to take part in a relevant interview under this regulation, or\n(b) has had a requirement to take part in a relevant interview under this regulation ... deferred,\nis not required to take part in an interview under regulation 2 unless this regulation ceases to apply to him.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 2ZA inserted (24.11.2008) by Social Security (Lone Parents and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/3051), regs. 1(2), 5(3) (with reg. 13, Sch. Pt. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 2ZA(1) inserted (28.4.2014) by The Income Support (Work-Related Activity) and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1097), regs. 1(1), 13(2)(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 2ZA(1)(c) omitted (28.4.2014) by virtue of The Income Support (Work-Related Activity) and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1097), regs. 1(1), 13(2)(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 2ZA(2) substituted (28.4.2014) by The Income Support (Work-Related Activity) and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1097), regs. 1(1), 13(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2ZA(3) substituted (31.10.2011) by The Social Security (Work-focused Interviews for Lone Parents and Partners) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/2428), regs. 1, 2(4)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2ZA(3)(b) omitted (28.4.2014) by virtue of The Income Support (Work-Related Activity) and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1097), regs. 1(1), 13(2)(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/1926/regulation/2ZA",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:05:44.764723+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."
}