# The Social Security (Work-focused Interviews for Lone Parents and Partners) (Amendment) Regulations 2011, Regulation 4: Amendment of the Social Security (Jobcentre Plus Interviews for Partners) Regulations 2003


(1) The Social Security (Jobcentre Plus Interviews for Partners) Regulations 2003 are amended as follows.
(2) 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, if references in those Regulations to income support were to a specified benefit.”.
(3) For regulation 7 (exemption), 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.”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/2428/regulation/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-work-focused-interviews-for-lone-parents-and-partners-amendment-regulations-2011/regulation-4
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