{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-and-child-support-decisions-and-appeals-regulations-1999/schedule-3A/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-and-child-support-decisions-and-appeals-regulations-1999/schedule-3A/paragraph-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/991",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-and-child-support-decisions-and-appeals-regulations-1999",
  "path": "schedule/3A/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Where—\n(a) it is decided upon supersession on the ground of a relevant change of circumstances or change specified in paragraphs 12 and 13 that the amount of income support is, or is to be, reduced; and\n(b) the Secretary of State certifies that it is impracticable for a superseding decision to take effect from the day prescribed in paragraph 12 or the preceding paragraphs of this Schedule (other than where paragraph 3(g) or 4 applies),\nthat superseding decision shall take effect—\n(i) where the relevant change has occurred, from the first day of the benefit week following that in which that superseding decision is made; or\n(ii) where the relevant change is expected to occur, from the first day of the benefit week following that in which that change of circumstances is expected to occur.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 3A inserted (19.6.2000) by The Social Security and Child Support (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/1596) , regs. 1(1) , 35"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3A para. 5(a) inserted (18.3.2005) by The Social Security, Child Support and Tax Credits (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/337), regs. 1, 2(21)(c)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3A para. 5(b) inserted (18.3.2005) by The Social Security, Child Support and Tax Credits (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/337), regs. 1, 2(21)(c)(ii)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/991/schedule/3A/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:52:23.255868+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."
}