{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-work-focused-interviews-regulations-2000/schedule-6/paragraph-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-work-focused-interviews-regulations-2000/schedule-6/paragraph-9.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/897",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Work-focused Interviews) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-work-focused-interviews-regulations-2000",
  "path": "schedule/6/paragraph/9",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In regulation 1 of the Child Support Departure Direction and Consequential Amendment Regulations 1996 in paragraph (2)–\n(a) after the definition of “departure direction application form\" there shall be inserted the following definition–\n““designated authority\" has the meaning it has in regulation 2(1) of the Social Security (Work-focused Interviews) Regulations 2000.”;\n(b) for the definition of “official error\" there shall be substituted the following definition–\n““official error\" means an error made by–\n(a) an officer of the Department of Social Security acting as such which no person outside that Department caused or to which no person outside that Department materially contributed;\n(b) a person employed by a designated authority acting on behalf of the authority, which no person outside that authority caused or to which no person outside that authority materially contributed;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/2907; the relevant amending Instrument is S.I. 1999/1047."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/897/schedule/6/paragraph/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:13:48.304752+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."
}