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Regulation 21 Amendment of the Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 1999

Original text. Later amendments are not shown.

In Schedule 2 to the Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 1999f1 (decisions against which no appeal lies), after paragraph 26, there shall be added the following paragraph—

“Loss of Benefit

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A decision of the Secretary of State that a sanctionable benefit as defined in section 7(8) of the Social Security Fraud Act 2001 is not payable, or is to be reduced, pursuant to section 7, 8 or 9 of that Act as a result of convictions for one or more benefit offences in each of two separate sets of proceedings, one offence being committed within 3 years of conviction for another, where the only ground of appeal is that any of the convictions was erroneous.”.

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S.I. 1991/991. Relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1999/3178, 2000/897 and 1596.