{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-work-focused-interviews-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-work-focused-interviews-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/regulation-2.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/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Requirement for person claiming a specified benefit to take part in an interview",
  "text": "(1) Subject to regulations 5 to 8, a person who –\n(a) makes a claim for a specified benefit;\n(b) on the day on which he makes that claim, has attained the age of 16 but has not attained the age of 60, and\n(c) is not in remunerative work,\nis required to take part in an interview.\n(2) An officer shall, except where paragraph (3) applies, conduct the interview.\n(3) An officer may, if he considers it appropriate in all the circumstances, arrange for a person who has not attained the age of 18 to attend an interview with the Careers Service.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in operation at 30.6.2003, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "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": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/2003/274",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Work-focused Interviews) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "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"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2003/274/regulation/2",
    "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."
}