{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-work-focused-interviews-for-lone-parents-regulations-northern-ireland-2001/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-work-focused-interviews-for-lone-parents-regulations-northern-ireland-2001/regulation-6.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/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Waiver",
  "text": "(1) A requirement imposed by these Regulations to take part in an interview shall not apply if an officer determines that an interview would not be—\n(a) of assistance to the lone parent, or\n(b) appropriate in the circumstances.\n(2) A person in relation to whom a requirement to take part in an interview has been waived under paragraph (1) shall be treated for the purposes of—\n(a) regulation 2, and\n(b) any claim for, or entitlement to, income support,\nas having complied with that requirement.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 6 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"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2017/18",
      "affecting_title": "The Income Support (Work-Related Activity) and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017"
    },
    {
      "type": "words 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/6",
    "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."
}