{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-consequential-supplementary-incidental-and-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-2013/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-consequential-supplementary-incidental-and-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-2013/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/630",
  "legislation_title": "The Universal Credit (Consequential, Supplementary, Incidental and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-consequential-supplementary-incidental-and-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Employment Act 1989",
  "text": "In section 8(4) of the Employment Act 1989 (power to exempt discrimination in favour of lone parents in connection with training), for paragraph (b) substitute—\n“(b) “couple” has the meaning given by section 39(1) of the Welfare Reform Act 2012; and\n(c) “lone parent” means a person who—\n(i) is not a member of a couple, and\n(ii) is responsible for, and a member of the same household as, a child.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1989 c.38."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/630/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:00:35.768736+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."
}