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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-work-focused-interviews-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/regulation-4",
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  "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/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Time when interview is to take place",
  "text": "An officer shall arrange for an interview to take place as soon as reasonably practicable after –\n(a) the claim is made;\n(b) the requirement under regulation 3(1) arises, or\n(c) in a case where regulation 6(1) applies, the time when that requirement is to apply by virtue of regulation 6(2).",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in operation at 30.6.2003, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2017/18",
      "affecting_title": "The Income Support (Work-Related Activity) and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2008/478",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Lone Parents and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008"
    },
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/2003/274",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Work-focused Interviews) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted for reg. 4(a)",
      "affecting": "nisr/2005/443",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Work-focused Interviews Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005"
    },
    {
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    {
      "type": "words omitted",
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      "affecting_title": "The Income Support (Work-Related Activity) and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017"
    },
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2003/274/regulation/4",
    "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."
}