# The Social Security (Work-focused Interviews) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001, Regulation 1: Citation, commencement and interpretation

Extent: N.I.
Status: prospective

(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.
(2) In these Regulations—
“the 1998 Order” means the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998;
“benefit week”—
(a) in relation to housing benefit, means a period of 7 days beginning on a Monday;
(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;
“the Careers Service” means the Careers Service of the Department of Higher and Further Education, Training and Employment;
“the Claims and Payments Regulations” means the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987;
“designated authority” means any of the following—
(a) the Department, the Department of Higher and Further Education, Training and Employment or the Department of Finance and Personnel;
(b) a person providing services to any of those Departments;
(c) the Housing Executive;
(d) a person providing services to, or authorised to exercise any functions of, the Housing Executive;
“the Housing Benefit Regulations” means the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987;
“interview” means a work-focused interview;
“personal adviser” means an officer of the Department or of the Department of Higher and Further Education, Training and Employment;
“specified benefit” means income support, housing benefit or incapacity benefit;
“work-focused interview” has the meaning given in regulation 2.
(3) In these Regulations, a “relevant person” is a person who resides in a postcode district specified in Schedule 1.
(4) For the purposes of these Regulations—
(a) “remunerative work” has the meaning prescribed in regulation 4 of the Housing Benefit Regulations, and
(b) “part-time work” means work for which payment is made and which is not remunerative work.
(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.
(6) These Regulations apply in respect of a specified benefit claimed on or after 14th May 2001.
(7) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Assembly.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2001/176/regulation/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-work-focused-interviews-regulations-northern-ireland-2001/regulation-1
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