The Social Security (Working Neighbourhoods) Regulations 2004

Amendment of the Social Security (Jobcentre Plus Interviews) Regulations 2002

26.—(1) The Social Security (Jobcentre Plus Interviews) Regulations 2002(1) shall be amended in accordance with this regulation.

(2) In paragraph (3) of regulation 2 (interpretation and application) after the words “Except in a case where regulation 16(2) applies,” there shall be inserted the words “or where a person is subject to provisions within the Social Security (Working Neighbourhoods) Regulations 2004 by virtue of regulation 2(3) of those Regulations,”.

(3) In regulation 4 (continuing entitlement to specified benefit dependent on an interview)—

(a) in paragraph (1)(a) for the words “paragraph (3)” there shall be substituted the words “either paragraph (3) or (3A)”;

(b) in paragraph (2) for the words “but for the requirement being waived in accordance with regulation 6 or deferred in accordance with regulation 7” there shall be substituted the words—

• “but for the requirement—

  (i)

  being waived in accordance with regulation 6;

  (ii)

  being deferred in accordance with regulation 7; or

  (iii)

  not arising because the person was at the time of the claim for the specified benefit subject to provisions within the Social Security (Working Neighbourhoods) Regulations 2004 by virtue of regulation 2(3) of those Regulations.”;

(c) at the beginning of paragraph (3) there shall be inserted the words “Except where paragraph (3A) applies,”;

(d) there shall be inserted as paragraph (3A) the following paragraph—

“(3A) Where a lone parent to whom paragraph (1)(a) applies was not required to take part in an interview under regulation 3 or under this regulation because at the time that the requirement would have arisen he was subject to provisions within the Social Security (Working Neighbourhoods) Regulations 2004 by virtue of regulation 2(3) of those Regulations, the lone parent shall be required to take part in an interview—

(a) after the expiry of six months, and

(b) after the expiry of one year, and

(c) 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 his claim for income support, except that a requirement to take part in an interview shall not arise by virtue of sub-paragraphs (a), (b) or (c) if the period specified in those provisions has already expired when the lone parent becomes subject to these Regulations.”.

(4) In paragraph (2) of regulation 16 (revocations and transitional provision) after the words “(except for regulations 3 and 11(2)(a) and (b)” there shall be inserted the words “and except where a person who is a relevant person for the purpose of the 2001 Regulations becomes subject to provisions within the Social Security (Working Neighbourhoods) Regulations 2004 by virtue of regulation 2(3) of those Regulations”.

(1)

S.I. 2002/1703, as amended by S.I. 2002/2497, 2003/492 and 2003/2439.