{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/discretionary-financial-assistance-regulations-2001/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/discretionary-financial-assistance-regulations-2001/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/1167",
  "legislation_title": "The Discretionary Financial Assistance Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/discretionary-financial-assistance-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Reviews",
  "text": "(1) A relevant authority may review any decision it has made with respect to the making, cancellation or recovery of discretionary housing payments in such circumstances as it thinks fit.\n(2) Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (1) above, a relevant authority may, on any such review, cancel the making of further such payments and recover a payment already made where that authority has determined that—\n(a) whether fraudulently or otherwise, any person has misrepresented, or failed to disclose, a material fact and, as a consequence of that misrepresentation or failure to disclose, a payment has been made; or\n(b) an error has been made when determining the application for a payment, and as a consequence of that error, a payment had been made which would not have been made but for that error.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulations revoked (S.) (1.4.2024) by The Discretionary Financial Assistance (Scotland) Revocation Regulations 2024 (S.S.I. 2024/58), regs. 1(1), 2; (E.) (1.4.2026) by The Discretionary Financial Assistance and Discretionary Housing Payments (Amendment and Revocation) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/271), reg. 1(1), Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/1167/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:53:25.901979+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."
}