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The Social Security (Work-focused Interviews for Lone Parents) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007
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EXPLANATORY NOTE
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These Regulations amend the Social Security (Work-focused Interviews for Lone Parents) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 (“the Lone Parents Regulations”) and the Social Security (Work-focused Interviews) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 (“the Work-focused Interviews Regulations”) to impose additional requirements on lone parents to take part in work-focused interviews.
Regulations 2(2) and 3(2)(b) make amendments to the Lone Parents Regulations and the Work-focused Interviews Regulations respectively. They require lone parents entitled to income support to take part in a work-focused interview every 6 months.
The requirement to take part every 6 months is introduced in stages. The first stage begins on 30th April 2007 for lone parents with a youngest child aged 5 or above. Regulations 2(2) and 3(2)(b) introduce the first stage. The second stage begins on 28th April 2008 for lone parents with a youngest child aged under 5. Regulations 2(7) and 3(3) introduce the second stage.
Regulation 2(5) amends the Lone Parents Regulations to provide that lone parents cannot be required to take part in a work-focused interview under more than one set of Regulations at the same time.
These Regulations make in relation to Northern Ireland only provision corresponding to provision contained in Regulations made by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in relation to Great Britain and accordingly, by virtue of section 149(3) of, and paragraph 10 of Schedule 5 to, the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c.8), are not subject to the requirement of section 149(2) of that Act for prior reference to the Social Security Advisory Committee.
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