{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-work-focused-interviews-regulations-northern-ireland-2001/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-work-focused-interviews-regulations-northern-ireland-2001/regulation-2.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/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Work-focused interview",
  "text": "In these Regulations, a “work-focused interview” means an interview with a relevant person conducted for any or all of the following purposes—\n(a) assessing a person’s prospects for existing or future employment (whether paid or voluntary);\n(b) assisting or encouraging a person to enhance his prospects of such employment;\n(c) identifying activities which the person may undertake to strengthen his existing or future prospects of such employment;\n(d) identifying current or future employment or training opportunities suitable to the person’s needs, and\n(e) identifying educational opportunities connected with the existing or future employment prospects or needs of the person.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in operation at 14.5.2001, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/2001/176",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Work-focused Interviews) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "nisr/2003/274",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Work-focused Interviews) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2001/176/regulation/2",
    "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."
}