
1 
These Regulations shall be cited as the Social Security (Claims and Information and Work-focused Interviews for Lone Parents) Amendment Regulations 2001 and shall come into force on 23rd April 2001.
2 
In regulation 17 of the Social Security (Claims and Information) Regulations 1999 (partners of claimants)—
(a) in paragraph (1), for the words “paragraph (3) is satisfied” there shall be substituted the words “one or more of the qualifying benefits has been payable to the claimant for at least six months”;
(b) at the end of paragraph (2), there shall be added the following—“
 ;
(e) invalid care allowance”;
(c) paragraph (3) shall be omitted.
3 
In regulation 5(1) of the Social Security (Work-focused Interviews for Lone Parents) and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2000 (deferment of requirement to take part in an interview), for the words “at that time” there shall be substituted the words “until that time”.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security.
Angela Eagle
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department of Social Security
26th March 2001