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<Secondary>
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<Number>
<Strong>PART 2</Strong>
</Number>
<Title>Universal credit</Title>
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<Number>CHAPTER 2</Number>
<Title>Claimant responsibilities</Title>
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<Title>
<Emphasis>Work-related requirements: supplementary</Emphasis>
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<Title>Connected requirements</Title>
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<Pnumber>1</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>The Department may require a claimant to participate in an interview for any purpose relating to—</Text>
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<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>the imposition of a work-related requirement on the claimant;</Text>
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<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>verifying the claimant's compliance with a work-related requirement;</Text>
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<Pnumber>c</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>assisting the claimant to comply with a work-related requirement.</Text>
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</P2para>
</P2>
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<Pnumber>2</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>The Department may specify how, when and where such an interview is to take place.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
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<Pnumber>3</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>The Department may, for the purpose of verifying the claimant's compliance with a work-related requirement, require a claimant to—</Text>
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<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>provide to the Department information and evidence specified by the Department in a manner so specified;</Text>
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<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>confirm compliance in a manner so specified.</Text>
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<Pnumber>4</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>The Department may require a claimant to report to the Department any specified changes in the claimant's circumstances which are relevant to—</Text>
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<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>the imposition of work-related requirements on the claimant;</Text>
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<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>the claimant's compliance with a work-related requirement.</Text>
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<Title>Imposition of requirements</Title>
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29
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<P1para>
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<Pnumber>1</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Regulations may make provision—</Text>
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<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>where the Department may impose a requirement under this Part, as to when the requirement must or must not be imposed;</Text>
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<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>where the Department may specify any action to be taken in relation to a requirement under this Part, as to what action must or must not be specified;</Text>
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<Pnumber>c</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>where the Department may specify any other matter in relation to a requirement under this Part, as to what must or must not be specified in respect of that matter.</Text>
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<Pnumber>2</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Where the Department may impose a work-focused interview requirement, the Department must have regard to such matters as may be prescribed.</Text>
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<Pnumber>3</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Where the Department may specify a particular action under Article 21(1) or 22(1)(b), the Department must have regard to such matters as may be prescribed.</Text>
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<Pnumber>4</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Where the Department may impose a requirement under this Part, the Department may revoke or change what has been imposed or specified.</Text>
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<Pnumber>5</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Where the Department may specify any action to be taken in relation to a requirement imposed under this Part, the Department may revoke or change what has been specified.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
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<Pnumber>6</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Notification of a requirement imposed under this Part (or any change to or revocation of such a requirement) is, if not included in the claimant commitment, to be in such manner as the Department may determine.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
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<Pnumber>7</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Regulations must make provision to secure that, in prescribed circumstances, where a claimant has recently been a victim of domestic violence—</Text>
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<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>a requirement imposed on that claimant under this Part ceases to have effect for a period of 13 weeks, and</Text>
</P3para>
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<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>the Department may not impose any other requirement under this Part on that claimant during that period.</Text>
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<Pnumber>8</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>For the purposes of paragraph (7)—</Text>
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<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>“domestic violence” has such meaning as may be prescribed;</Text>
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<P3para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-victim-of-domestic-violence">victim of domestic violence</Term>
” means a person on or against whom domestic violence is inflicted or threatened (and regulations under paragraph (7) may prescribe circumstances in which a person is to be treated as being or not being a victim of domestic violence);
</Text>
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<Pnumber>c</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>a person has recently been a victim of domestic violence if a prescribed period has not expired since the violence was inflicted or threatened.</Text>
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<Title>Compliance with requirements</Title>
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<P1para>
<Text>Regulations may make provision as to circumstances in which a claimant is to be treated as having—</Text>
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<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>complied with or not complied with any requirement imposed under this Part or any aspect of such a requirement, or</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
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<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>taken or not taken any particular action specified by the Department in relation to such a requirement.</Text>
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in operation at 2.5.2016 for specified purposes by
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,
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<Text>
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in operation at 2.5.2016 by
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,
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