{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-work-focused-interviews-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-work-focused-interviews-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/regulation-7.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/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Exemptions",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), persons who, on the day on which the claim for a specified benefit is made or the requirement to take part in an interview under regulation 3 or 6(2) arises or applies –\n(a) are engaged in remunerative work, or\n(b) are claiming, or are entitled to, a jobseeker’s allowance,\nshall be exempt from the requirement to take part in an interview.\n(2) Paragraph 1(b) shall not apply where –\n(a) a joint-claim couple (as defined for the purposes of Article 3(4) of the Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 1995) have claimed a jobseeker’s allowance, and\n(b) a member of that couple is a person to whom regulation 3D(1)(c) of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 (further circumstances in which a joint-claim couple may be entitled to a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance) applies.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 7 in operation at 30.6.2003, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1995/2705 (N.I. 15); the definition of “joint-claim couple” was inserted by Article 56 of and paragraph 3(4)(b) of Schedule 7 to the Welfare Reform and Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.R. 1996 No. 198; regulation 3D was inserted by regulation 2(2) of S.R. 2000 No. 350 and amended by regulation 2(3) of S.R. 2001 No. 120"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "nisr/2005/414",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Incapacity Benefit Work-focused Interviews) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005"
    },
    {
      "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/2005/443",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Work-focused Interviews Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2008/478",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Lone Parents and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2008/465",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Incapacity Benefit Work-focused Interviews) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "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/7",
    "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."
}