25.—(1) The Social Security (Work-focused Interviews for Lone Parents) and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2000 M1 shall be amended in accordance with this regulation.
(2) In regulation 2 (requirement for lone parents claiming or entitled to income support to take part in an interview)—
(a)in paragraph (1)(b) before the words “is entitled to income support and” there shall be inserted the words “ except where sub-paragraph (c) applies, ”;
(b)in paragraph (1) there shall be added the following sub-paragraph—
“(c)is entitled to income support, and has been subject to at least one requirement to take part in an interview under the Social Security (Working Neighbourhoods) Regulations 2004 in relation to that claim, is required to take part in an interview—
(i)after the expiry of six months, and
(ii)after the expiry of one year, and
(iii)at intervals of one year thereafter,
from the date on which he took part in, or was treated as having taken part in, an interview as a condition of the claim for income support, except that a requirement to take part in an interview shall not arise by virtue of heads (i), (ii) or (iii) if the period specified in those provisions has already expired when the lone parent becomes subject to these Regulations.”;
(c)in paragraph (2) there shall be substituted for the words “or (b)(ii)” the words “ ,(b)(ii) or (c) ”.
(3) At the end of regulation 4(d) (circumstances where requirement to take part in an interview does not apply) there shall be added the words “ or the Social Security (Working Neighbourhoods) Regulations 2004 ”.
(4) In paragraph (3)(b) of regulation 7 (consequence of failure to take part in an interview) after the words “regulation 2(1)(b)” there shall be inserted the words “ or (c) ”.
Marginal Citations
M1S.I. 2000/1926 as amended by S.I. 2001/1189, 2001/3210, 2002/670, 2002/1703, 2003/400, 2003/492 and 2004/565.