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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-pensions-and-social-security-act-2000/schedule-7/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2000/19",
  "legislation_title": "Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-pensions-and-social-security-act-2000",
  "path": "schedule/7/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) In this Schedule “relevant authority” means an authority administering housing benefit or council tax benefit.\n(2) In this Schedule “relevant decision” means any of the following—\n(a) a decision of a relevant authority on a claim for housing benefit or council tax benefit;\n(b) any decision under paragraph 4 of this Schedule which supersedes a decision falling within paragraph (a), within this paragraph or within paragraph (b) of sub-paragraph (1) of that paragraph;\nbut references in this Schedule to a relevant decision do not include references to a decision under paragraph 3 to revise a relevant decision.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 7 repealed (1.4.2013 for specified purposes) by Welfare Reform Act 2012 (c. 5), s. 150(3), Sch. 14 Pt. 1; S.I. 2013/358, art. 8(c), Sch. 4 (with arts. 9, 10, Sch. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 7 para. 1 wholly in force at 2.7.2001; Sch. 7 para. 1 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 86(2)(3)(a); Sch. 7 para. 1 in force for certain purposes at 1.11.2000 by S.I. 2000/2950, art. 3(c); Sch. 7 para. 1 in force at 2.7.2001 by S.I. 2001/1252, art. 2(2)(a)(i)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2007/5",
      "affecting_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2007"
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      "affecting_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2012"
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    {
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      "affecting_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2012"
    },
    {
      "type": "words in Sch. 7 para. 6(8) renumbered as Sch. 7 para. 6(8)(a)",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2012/5",
      "affecting_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2012"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
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    {
      "type": "words substituted",
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      "affecting_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2012"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/19/schedule/7/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:20:56.319030+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}