Amendment of the Social Security (Work-focused Interviews) Regulations 2000
3. Regulation 6 of the Social Security (Work-focused Interviews) Regulations 2000(1) (continuing entitlement dependent upon an interview) is amended as follows—
(a)in paragraph (1) for “the age of 60” substitute “pensionable age”(2);
(b)in paragraph (5) before the definition of “personal capability assessment” insert—
““pensionable age”, in the case of a man born before 6th April 1955, means the age when a woman born on the same day as the man would attain pensionable age;”.
S.I. 2000/897. Regulation 6 was revoked by regulation 16(1) of, and Schedule 1 to, S.I. 2002/1703 but is saved for transitional cases by paragraph (2) of that regulation for the period specified in paragraph (3). Relevant amending instrument is S.I. 2005/2727.
For the meaning of “pensionable age” see the definition in section 191 of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 as substituted by paragraph 14 of Schedule 4 to the Pensions Act 1995.