{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-work-focused-interviews-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/regulation-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-work-focused-interviews-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/regulation-15.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2003/274",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Work-focused Interviews) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-work-focused-interviews-regulations-northern-ireland-2003",
  "path": "regulation/15",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Revocations and transitional provision",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the Social Security (Work-focused Interviews) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 (“the 2001 Regulations”) are hereby revoked to the extent specified in Schedule 1.\n(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), the 2001 Regulations (except for regulations 3, 4 and 11(2)(a) and (b)) shall continue to apply as if these Regulations had not come into operation for the period specified in paragraph (3) in the case of a person who, on the day before the day on which these Regulations come into operation, is both a relevant person and entitled to a specified benefit for the purposes of those Regulations.\n(3) The period specified for the purposes of paragraph (2) shall be the period beginning on the day on which these Regulations come into operation and ending on the day on which the person –\n(a) ceases to be a relevant person for the purposes of the 2001 Regulations;\n(b) is not entitled to any specified benefit for the purposes of those Regulations, or\n(c) attains the age of 60,\nwhichever shall first occur.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 15(1) in operation at 15.9.2003, see reg. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Reg. 15(2)-(3) in operation at 30.6.2003, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 2001 No. 176"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2009/327",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Incapacity Benefit Work-focused Interviews) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009"
    },
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/2003/274",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Work-focused Interviews) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/2003/274",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Work-focused Interviews) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003"
    },
    {
      "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"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2003/274/regulation/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:02:33.099020+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."
}