{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-work-focused-interviews-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-work-focused-interviews-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/regulation-5.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/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Waiver of requirement to take part in an interview",
  "text": "(1) A requirement imposed by these Regulations to take part in an interview shall not apply where an officer determines that an interview would not –\n(a) be of assistance to the person concerned, or\n(b) be appropriate in the circumstances.\n(2) A person in relation to whom a requirement to take part in an interview has been waived under paragraph (1) shall be treated for the purposes of –\n(a) regulation 2 or 3, and\n(b) any claim for, or entitlement to, a specified benefit,\nas having complied with that requirement.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 in operation at 30.6.2003, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "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": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2017/18",
      "affecting_title": "The Income Support (Work-Related Activity) and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017"
    },
    {
      "type": "word substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2017/18",
      "affecting_title": "The Income Support (Work-Related Activity) and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2003/274/regulation/5",
    "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."
}