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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-work-focused-interviews-regulations-northern-ireland-2001/regulation-5",
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  "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/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Continuing entitlement dependent upon an interview",
  "text": "(1) A relevant person who has not attained the age of 60 and who is entitled to a specified benefit shall be required to take part in an interview as a condition of his continuing to be entitled to the full amount of benefit which is payable apart from these Regulations where paragraph (2) applies, and—\n(a) in the case of a lone parent who is not entitled to either incapacity benefit or severe disablement allowance, any of the circumstances specified in paragraph (3) apply, or\n(b) in any other case, any of the circumstances specified in paragraph (4) apply.\n(2) This paragraph applies in the case of a person who has taken part in a work-focused interview, or who would have taken part in such an interview but for the requirement being waived in accordance with regulation 6 or deferred in accordance with regulation 7.\n(3) The circumstances specified in this paragraph are that the lone parent—\n(a) has been entitled to a specified benefit for more than a year except where one of the benefits to which the person was entitled during the previous 12 months was incapacity benefit or severe disablement allowance, and\n(b) has not taken part in an interview for at least a year.\n(4) The circumstances specified in this paragraph are those where—\n(a) a person is entitled to incapacity benefit following a personal capability assessment;\n(b) a person’s entitlement to an invalid care allowance ceases whilst entitlement to a specified benefit continues;\n(c) a person becomes engaged or ceases to be engaged in part-time work;\n(d) a person has been undergoing education or training arranged by a personal adviser and that education or training comes to an end, and\n(e) a person who has not attained the age of 18 and who has previously undertaken an interview attains the age of 18.\n(5) In this regulation—\n“lone parent” means a person who has no partner and who is responsible for, and a member of the same household as, a child;\n“personal capability assessment” means an assessment in accordance with the Social Security (Incapacity for Work) (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 in operation at 14.5.2001, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 2000 No. 4"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/2001/176",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Work-focused Interviews) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2005/443",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Work-focused Interviews Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2011/26",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Work-focused Interviews etc.) (Equalisation of State Pension Age) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2011/26",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Work-focused Interviews etc.) (Equalisation of State Pension Age) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2026/246",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (Carer’s Assistance) (Consequential Modifications) Order 2026"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2002/323",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Carer’s Allowance) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2023/1218",
      "affecting_title": "The Carer’s Assistance (Carer Support Payment) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2023"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2001/176/regulation/5",
    "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."
}