The Social Security (Incapacity Benefit Work-focused Interviews) Amendment Regulations 2005

2.  In regulation 3 (requirement for a relevant person entitled to a specified benefit to take part in an interview)—

(a) in paragraph (1) for “paragraph (2) below and regulations 6 and 7” there is substituted “paragraphs (2) and (2A) below and regulations 6 to 8”;

(b) for paragraph (1)(b) there is substituted—

“(b) has attained the age of 18 but has not attained the age of 60—

(i) in respect of a relevant person to whom paragraph (a)(i) or (b)(i) of the definition of “relevant person” applies, on the day on which he makes his claim for that specified benefit; or

(ii) in respect of a relevant person to whom paragraph (a)(ii) or (b)(ii) of the definition of “relevant person” applies, on 7th February 2005,”;

(c) after paragraph (2) there is inserted—

“(2A) A relevant person who becomes entitled to two or more specified benefits and has not taken part in an interview under paragraph (1) above by virtue of that entitlement—

(a) is only required to take part in one interview under that paragraph; and

(b) that interview counts for the purposes of all those benefits.”; and

(d) for paragraph (3) there is substituted—

“(3) An officer shall arrange for the interview referred to in paragraph (1) above to take place—

(a) in respect of a relevant person to whom paragraph (a)(i) or (b)(i) of the definition of “relevant person” applies, after the expiry of eight weeks after the date the claim for a specified benefit is made or as soon as is reasonably practicable thereafter; or

(b) in respect of a relevant person to whom paragraph (a)(ii) or (b)(ii) of the definition of “relevant person” applies, on a date the officer determines.”.