# The Social Security (Work-focused Interviews) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003, Regulation 7: Exemptions

Extent: N.I.
Status: prospective

(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 –
(a) are engaged in remunerative work, or
(b) are claiming, or are entitled to, a jobseeker’s allowance,
shall be exempt from the requirement to take part in an interview.
(2) Paragraph 1(b) shall not apply where –
(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
(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2003/274/regulation/7 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-work-focused-interviews-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/regulation-7
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