{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-work-focused-interviews-for-lone-parents-regulations-northern-ireland-2001/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-work-focused-interviews-for-lone-parents-regulations-northern-ireland-2001/regulation-5.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/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Deferment of requirement to take part in an interview",
  "text": "(1) A requirement by virtue of these Regulations to take part in an interview shall not apply to a person until a date determined by an officer where he determines that an interview would not until that time be—\n(a) of assistance to that person, or\n(b) appropriate in the circumstances.\n(2) Except for the purpose of regulation 2, where an officer has made a decision under paragraph (1), the person to whom that decision relates shall be treated for the purposes of any claim for, or entitlement to, income support as having complied with the requirement to take part in an interview until an officer decides whether that person took part in the interview which had been deferred under paragraph (1).",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 comes into force in accordance with reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2005/443",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Work-focused Interviews Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2008/478",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Lone Parents and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2001/152/regulation/5",
    "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."
}