{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-work-focused-interviews-for-partners-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-work-focused-interviews-for-partners-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2003/405",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Work-focused Interviews for Partners) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-work-focused-interviews-for-partners-regulations-northern-ireland-2003",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Waiver of requirement to take part in an interview",
  "text": "(1) A requirement imposed by these Regulations to take part in an interview shall not apply where an officer determines that an interview would not –\n(a) be of assistance to the partner concerned, or\n(b) be appropriate in the circumstances.\n(2) A partner in relation to whom a requirement to take part in an interview has been waived under paragraph (1) shall be treated ... as having complied with that requirement.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(2) omitted (28.4.2008) by virtue of The Social Security (Work-focused Interviews for Partners) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 (S.R. 2008/169), regs. 1(1), 2(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in operation at 12.4.2004, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2003/405/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:01:16.400516+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."
}