{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fines-deductions-from-income-support-regulations-1992/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fines-deductions-from-income-support-regulations-1992/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/2182",
  "legislation_title": "Fines (Deductions from Income Support) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fines-deductions-from-income-support-regulations-1992",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Application for deductions from income support, universal credit, state pension credit or, jobseeker’s allowance or employment and support allowance",
  "text": "(1) Where a fine has been imposed on an offender by a court or a sum is required to be paid by a compensation order which has been made against an offender by a court and (in either case) the offender is entitled to income support, universal credit, state pension credit or, jobseeker’s allowance or employment and support allowance the court may, subject to paragraph (2), apply to the Secretary of State asking him to deduct sums from any amounts payable to the offender by way of income support, universal credit, state pension credit or, jobseeker’s allowance or employment and support allowance in order to secure the payment of any sum which is or forms part of the fine or compensation.\n(2) Before making an application the court shall make an enquiry as to the offender’s means.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (6.10.2003) by State Pension Credit (Consequential, Transitional and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/3019) , regs. 1(2)(b) , 32(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (29.4.2013) by The Fines, Council Tax and Community Charges (Deductions from Universal Credit and Other Benefits) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/612), regs. 1(2), 4(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 substituted (7.10.96) by S.I. 1996/2344, reg. 1, 11(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 substituted (27.10.2008) by Employment and Support Allowance (Consequential Provisions) (No.2) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1554), regs. 1(2)(b), 54(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (6.10.2003) by State Pension Credit (Consequential, Transitional and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/3019) , regs. 1(2)(b) , 32(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 substituted (7.10.96) by S.I. 1996/2344, reg. 1, 11(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Heading to reg. 2 substituted (7.10.96) by S.I. 1996/2344, reg. 1, 11(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 inserted (29.4.2013) by The Fines, Council Tax and Community Charges (Deductions from Universal Credit and Other Benefits) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/612), regs. 1(2), 4(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 applied (with modifications) (23.2.2004 for specified purposes, 29.3.2004 for specified purposes, 5.4.2004 in so far as not already in force) by Fines Collection Regulations 2004 (S.I. 2004/176), regs. 1(2), 5(b) (with regs. 1(4), 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Reg. 2(1) applied (with modifications) (27.3.2006) by Fines Collection Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/501), art. 1(1)reg. 31(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Reg. 2(2) applied (with modifications) (27.3.2006) by Fines Collection Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/501), art. 1(1)reg. 31(b)(ii)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/2182/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:16:14.512963+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."
}