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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-work-focused-interviews-for-lone-parents-regulations-northern-ireland-2001/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-work-focused-interviews-for-lone-parents-regulations-northern-ireland-2001/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2001/152",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Work-focused Interviews for Lone Parents) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-work-focused-interviews-for-lone-parents-regulations-northern-ireland-2001",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Circumstances where requirement to take part in an interview does not apply",
  "text": "Regulation 2 shall not apply where the lone parent—\n(a) is responsible for and living in the same household as a child who has not attained the age of 5 years and 3 months;\n(b) has attained the age of 60;\n(c) has not attained the age of 18.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 comes into force in accordance with reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2011/26",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Work-focused Interviews etc.) (Equalisation of State Pension Age) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2011/26",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Work-focused Interviews etc.) (Equalisation of State Pension Age) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2008/465",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Incapacity Benefit Work-focused Interviews) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2008/478",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Lone Parents and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008"
    },
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2003/107",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Work-focused Interviews for Lone Parents Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "words added",
      "affecting": "nisr/2003/274",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Work-focused Interviews) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2002/105",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Work-focused Interviews for Lone Parents Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2005/443",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Work-focused Interviews Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2007/219",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Work-focused Interviews for Lone Parents) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2017/18",
      "affecting_title": "The Income Support (Work-Related Activity) and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2017/18",
      "affecting_title": "The Income Support (Work-Related Activity) and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017"
    },
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2017/18",
      "affecting_title": "The Income Support (Work-Related Activity) and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2001/152/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:11:58.297336+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."
}