{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-social-security-breach-of-community-order-regulations-2001/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-social-security-breach-of-community-order-regulations-2001/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2001/0110290666",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Breach of Community Order) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-social-security-breach-of-community-order-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Reduction of income support",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4), any payment of income support which falls to be made to an offender in respect of any week in the prescribed period shall be reduced—\n(a) where the offender or any other member of his family is pregnant or seriously ill, by a sum equal to 20%;\n(b) in any other case, by a sum equal to 40%,\nof the relevant amount applicable on the first day of the prescribed period under paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 2 to the Income Support Regulations in respect of a single claimant for income support.\n(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(a), whether or not a person is a member of the offender’s family shall be determined in accordance with section 137(1) of the Benefits Act and Part III of the Income Support Regulations.\n(3) Payment shall not be reduced under paragraph (1) below 10 pence per week.\n(4) A reduction under paragraph (1) shall, if it is not a multiple of 5p, be rounded to the nearest such multiple or, if it is a multiple of 2.5p but not of 5p, to the next lower multiple of 5p.\n(5) Where the rate of income support payable to an offender changes, the rules set out above for a reduction in the benefit payable shall be applied to the new rates and any adjustment to the reduction shall take effect from the beginning of the first benefit week to commence for the offender following the change.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2001/0110290666/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:26:52.639627+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."
}