{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-work-focused-interviews-for-lone-parents-and-partners-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2011/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-work-focused-interviews-for-lone-parents-and-partners-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2011/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2011/368",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Work-focused Interviews for Lone Parents and Partners) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-work-focused-interviews-for-lone-parents-and-partners-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2011",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Social Security (Work-focused Interviews for Partners) Regulations",
  "text": "(1) The Social Security (Work-focused Interviews for Partners) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 are amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).\n(2) In regulation 1 (citation, commencement and interpretation) after paragraph (2) insert—\n“(2A) 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 (Northern Ireland) 1987, if references in those Regulations to income support were to a specified benefit.”.\n(3) For regulation 6 (exemption) substitute—\n“6. A partner who, on the day on which the requirement to take part in an interview arises or applies under regulation 2, 2A or 5(2) is—\n(a) in receipt of a specified benefit as a claimant in his own right; or\n(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,\nis exempt from the requirement to take part in an interview.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 2003 No. 405; relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 2008 No. 169"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.R. 1987 No. 459"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Regulation 6 was amended by regulation 2(6) of S.R. 2008 No. 169"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2011/368/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:19:14.230910+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."
}