Regulation 4 Amendment of the Social Security (Work-focused Interviews for Partners) Regulations

The Social Security (Work-focused Interviews for Partners) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003^f1 are amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).

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

“(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^f2, if references in those Regulations to income support were to a specified benefit.”.

For regulation 6^f3 (exemption) substitute—

“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—

(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.”.