{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-administration-act-1992/schedule-3B/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-administration-act-1992/schedule-3B/paragraph-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1992/5",
  "legislation_title": "Social Security Administration Act 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-administration-act-1992",
  "path": "schedule/3B/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Further provision about eligibility verification notices",
  "text": "(1) An eligibility verification notice must specify a period within which the person given the notice must comply with the notice to avoid liability to a penalty under Part 2 of this Schedule.\n(2) The period specified—\n(a) must begin with the day on which the notice is given, and\n(b) must not be less than 14 days.\n(3) An eligibility verification notice must give details about—\n(a) the right to seek a review of the notice under paragraph 13,\n(b) the right to appeal against the notice under paragraph 14, and\n(c) the penalties that may be imposed under Part 2 of this Schedule.\n(4) An eligibility verification notice (a “periodic eligibility verification notice”) may require a person to take the steps set out in paragraph 1(3) and (4) at specified intervals within a period not exceeding 1 year from the date of the notice.\n(5) If it does so, the eligibility verification notice must set out the periods within which the person must comply with the eligibility verification notice for each specified interval.\n(6) Each such period must not be less than 14 days.\n(7) An eligibility verification notice may not require a person to examine historic data, except for the purpose set out in sub-paragraph (9).\n(8) Data is historic, in relation to an eligibility verification notice, if it relates to a time before the beginning of the period of 1 year ending with the day on which the notice is given.\n(9) An eligibility verification notice may require a person to provide the date that an account which meets an eligibility indicator first began to meet that indicator.\n(10) An eligibility verification notice may require information—\n(a) to be compiled or collated in a specified manner;\n(b) to be provided in a specified way (including by electronic transmission to a specified address or portal).\n(11) The Secretary of State may vary or revoke an eligibility verification notice by giving notice to the person to whom it was given.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 3B inserted (2.12.2025 but only for the purposes of making regulations, 2.2.2026 in so far as not already in force) by Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Act 2025 (c. 28), s. 109(2)(b), Sch. 3 Pt. 1 (with s. 105); S.I. 2025/1265, reg. 2(2)(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1992/5/schedule/3B/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:36:26.977425+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."
}