{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-work-focused-interviews-regulations-northern-ireland-2001/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-work-focused-interviews-regulations-northern-ireland-2001/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2001/176",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Work-focused Interviews) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-work-focused-interviews-regulations-northern-ireland-2001",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Work-focused Interviews) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 and shall come into operation on 14th May 2001.\n(2) In these Regulations—\n“the 1998 Order” means the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998;\n“benefit week”—\n(a) in relation to housing benefit, means a period of 7 days beginning on a Monday;\n(b) in relation to any other specified benefit, means any period of 7 days corresponding to the week in respect of which the relevant social security benefit is due to be paid;\n“the Careers Service” means the Careers Service of the Department of Higher and Further Education, Training and Employment;\n“the Claims and Payments Regulations” means the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987;\n“designated authority” means any of the following—\n(a) the Department, the Department of Higher and Further Education, Training and Employment or the Department of Finance and Personnel;\n(b) a person providing services to any of those Departments;\n(c) the Housing Executive;\n(d) a person providing services to, or authorised to exercise any functions of, the Housing Executive;\n“the Housing Benefit Regulations” means the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987;\n“interview” means a work-focused interview;\n“personal adviser” means an officer of the Department or of the Department of Higher and Further Education, Training and Employment;\n“specified benefit” means income support, housing benefit or incapacity benefit;\n“work-focused interview” has the meaning given in regulation 2.\n(3) In these Regulations, a “relevant person” is a person who resides in a postcode district specified in Schedule 1.\n(4) For the purposes of these Regulations—\n(a) “remunerative work” has the meaning prescribed in regulation 4 of the Housing Benefit Regulations, and\n(b) “part-time work” means work for which payment is made and which is not remunerative work.\n(5) Where a claim for benefit is made by a person (“the appointee”) on behalf of another, references in these Regulations to a person claiming benefit shall be treated as a reference to the person on whose behalf the claim is made and not to the appointee.\n(6) These Regulations apply in respect of a specified benefit claimed on or after 14th May 2001.\n(7) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Assembly.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 1 in operation at 14.5.2001, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1998/1506 (N.I. 10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.R. 1987 No.465; relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 1997 No. 156"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.R. 1987 No.461; relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 1991 No. 337, S.R. 1993 Nos. 218 and 381, S.R. 1995 No.89, S.R. 1996 No.334, S.R. 1999 Nos. 342 and 416"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Regulation 4 was amended by regulation 3 of S.R. 1991 No. 337, regulation 3(a) and (b) of S.R. 1993 No. 381, regulation 4(a) and (b) of S.R. 1995 No. 89, regulation 3 of S.R. 1996 No. 334 and regulation 4(2) of S.R. 1999 No.342"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "1954 c. 33 (N.I.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/2001/176",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Work-focused Interviews) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2005/443",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Work-focused Interviews Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2005/443",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Work-focused Interviews Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2005/443",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Work-focused Interviews Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005"
    },
    {
      "type": "words revoked",
      "affecting": "nisr/2006/407",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit (Consequential Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked in part",
      "affecting": "nisr/2003/274",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Work-focused Interviews) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "modified",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/492",
      "affecting_title": "The Child Benefit and Guardian’s Allowance (Administration) Regulations 2003"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2001/176/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:11:41.068352+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."
}