{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-work-focused-interviews-for-lone-parents-and-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2000/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-work-focused-interviews-for-lone-parents-and-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2000/regulation-4.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/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Circumstances where requirement to take part in an interview does not apply",
  "text": "(1) Regulations 2, 2ZA and 2ZB shall not apply where the lone parent—\n(a) has attained pensionable age;\n(b) has not attained the age of 18; or\n(c) is—\n(i) required to take part in an interview, or\n(ii) not required to take part in an interview by virtue of—\n(aa) a waiver of a requirement, or\n(bb) a deferment of an interview,\nunder the Social Security (Work-focused Interviews) Regulations 2000, the Social Security (Jobcentre Plus Interviews) Regulations 2001, the Social Security (Jobcentre Plus Interviews) Regulations 2002, or the Social Security (Incapacity Benefit Work-focused Interviews) Regulations 2003 ....\n(1A) Regulations 2 and 2ZA shall not apply to a lone parent who is treated as responsible for, and a member of the same household as, a child who is under the age of one.\n( 2 ) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n( 4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 substituted (31.10.2005) by Social Security (Work-focused Interviews) Amendment Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/2727), regs. 1(1), 4(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(1) 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(6)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in reg. 4(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(4)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(1)(a) substituted (6.4.2010) by Social Security (Work-focused Interviews etc.) (Equalisation of State Pension Age) Amendment Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/563), regs. 1, 4(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(1)(c) substituted (30.4.2007) by Social Security (Work-focused Interviews for Lone Parents) Amendment Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/1034), regs. 1(2), 2(5)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(1)(c) omitted (24.4.2006) by virtue of Social Security (Working Neighbourhoods) Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/909), regs. 1(1), 2(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Reg. 4(1A) inserted (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(6)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(1A) substituted (28.4.2014) by The Income Support (Work-Related Activity) and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1097), regs. 1(1), 13(4)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Reg. 4(2) omitted (24.4.2006) by virtue of Social Security (Working Neighbourhoods) Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/909), regs. 1(1), 2(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Reg. 4(3) 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(4)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Reg. 4(4) omitted (11.4.2011) by virtue of The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/674), regs. 1(4), 9(4)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/1926/regulation/4",
    "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."
}