Regulation 4 Amendment of the Social Security (Jobcentre Plus Interviews for Partners) Regulations 2003

The Social Security (Jobcentre Plus Interviews for Partners) Regulations 2003^f1 are amended as follows.

In regulation 2 (interpretation), after paragraph (1), insert—

“(2)

For the purposes of these Regulations a person is to be treated as responsible for, and a member of the same household as, a child only where the person would be treated as being responsible for, and a member of the same household as, such a child under regulations 15 and 16 of the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987^f2, if references in those Regulations to income support were to a specified benefit.”.

For regulation 7 (exemption)^f3, substitute—

“7.

A partner who, on the day on which the requirement to take part in an interview arises or applies under regulation 3, 3A or 6(2) is—

(a)

in receipt of a specified benefit as a claimant in his own right, or

(b)

a member of a couple, one of whom is responsible for, and a member of the same household as, a child under the age of one,

is exempt from the requirement to take part in an interview.”.