The Social Security (Jobcentre Plus Interviews for Partners) Regulations 2003

Amendments to the Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 1999

15.—(1) The Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 1999(1) shall be amended in accordance with this regulation.

(2) In paragraph (3) of regulation 1 (citation, commencement and interpretation)—

(a) in paragraph (b) of the definition of “party to the proceedings” before the words “or section 12(2)” there shall be inserted the words “ , section 2B(6) of the Administration Act(2)”;

(b) at the end of the definition of “work-focused interview” there shall be added the words “or under the Social Security (Jobcentre Plus Interviews for Partners) Regulations 2003”.

(3) In paragraph (6A) of regulation 3 after the words “section 2B(2)” there shall be inserted the words “or (2A)”.

(4) In paragraph (2) of regulation 6 at the end of sub-paragraph (h)(ii) there shall be added the words “or, in the case of a partner who was required to take part in a work-focused interview under the Social Security (Jobcentre Plus Interviews for Partners) Regulations 2003, ceased to be a partner for the purposes of those Regulations or is no longer a partner to whom those Regulations apply”.

(5) For paragraph (25) of regulation 7 there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

“(25) In a case where a decision (“the first decision”) has been made that a person failed without good cause to take part in a work-focused interview, the decision under section 10 shall take effect as from—

(a) the first day of the benefit week to commence for that person following the date of the first decision; or

(b) in a case where a partner has failed without good cause to take part in a work-focused interview under the Social Security (Jobcentre Plus Interviews for Partners) Regulations 2003—

(i) the first day of the benefit week to commence for the claimant (as defined in regulation 2(1) of those Regulations) following the date of the first decision; or

(ii) if that date arises five days or less after the day on which the first decision was made, as from the first day of the second benefit week to commence for the claimant following the date of the first decision.”.

(1)

S.I. 1999/991; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1999/2570, 2000/897, 2000/3185 and 2002/1703.

(2)

1992 c. 5; section 2B was inserted by section 57 of the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999 (c. 30) and amended by section 53 of, and paragraphs 8 and 9 of Schedule 7 to, and section 54 of, and Schedule 8 to, the Employment Act 2002 (c. 22).