{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-act-2007/section-11B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-act-2007/section-11B.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2007/5",
  "legislation_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-act-2007",
  "path": "section/11B",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "11B",
  "heading": "Work-focused interview requirement",
  "text": "(1) In this Part a “work-focused interview requirement” is a requirement that a person participate in one or more work-focused interviews as specified by the Secretary of State.\n(2) A work-focused interview is an interview for prescribed purposes relating to work or work preparation.\n(3) The purposes which may be prescribed under subsection (2) include in particular that of making it more likely in the opinion of the Secretary of State that the person will obtain paid work (or more paid work or better-paid work).\n(4) The Secretary of State may specify how, when and where a work-focused interview is to take place.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 11-11K substituted for ss. 11-16 (25.2.2013 for specified purposes, 29.4.2013 for specified purposes and subsequently on the days on which and for the purposes for which \"the amending provisions\" are brought into force by secondary legislation) by Welfare Reform Act 2012 (c. 5), ss. 57(2), 150(3); S.I. 2013/358, art. 2(1), Sch. 1 para. 12; S.I. 2013/983, art. 7(1)(d) (with art. 7(3)) (as amended: (1.7.2013) by S.I. 2013/1511, art. 6)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2007/5/section/11B",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:12:56.724319+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."
}