{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-fraud-act-2001/section-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-fraud-act-2001/section-13.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2001/11",
  "legislation_title": "Social Security Fraud Act 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-fraud-act-2001",
  "path": "section/13",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Interpretation of sections 6A to 12",
  "text": "In this section and sections 6A to 12—\n“benefit” includes any allowance, payment, credit or loan;\n“ cautioned ”, in relation to any person and any offence, means cautioned after the person concerned has admitted the offence; and “caution” is to be interpreted accordingly;\n...\n“family” has the same meaning as in Part 7 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (c. 4);\n“income-based jobseeker’s allowance”, “joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance” and “joint-claim couple” have the same meanings as in the Jobseekers Act 1995 (c. 18);\n“ income-related allowance ” has the same meaning as in Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act 2007 (employment and support allowance);\n...\n“sanctionable benefit” has the meaning given by section 6A(1);\n“ state pension credit ” means state pension credit under the State Pension Credit Act 2002;\n“war pension” has the same meaning as in section 25 of the Social Security Act 1989 (c. 24) (establishment and functions of war pensions committees).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 13 substituted (12.1.2010 for specified purposes, 1.4.2010 in so far as not already in force) by Welfare Reform Act 2009 (c. 24), s. 61(3), Sch. 4 para. 7(2); S.I. 2010/45, art. 2(1)(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 13 inserted (12.1.2010 for specified purposes, 1.4.2010 in so far as not already in force) by Welfare Reform Act 2009 (c. 24), s. 61(3), Sch. 4 para. 7(3); S.I. 2010/45, art. 2(1)(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 13 repealed (12.1.2010 for specified purposes, 1.4.2010 in so far as not already in force) by Welfare Reform Act 2009 (c. 24), s. 61(3), Sch. 4 para. 7(4), 7 Pt. 3; S.I. 2010/45, art. 2(1)(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 13 inserted (18.3.2008 for specified purposes, 27.10.2008 in so far as not already in force) by Welfare Reform Act 2007 (c. 5), s. 70(2), Sch. 3 para. 23(8); S.I. 2008/787, art. 2(1)(4)(f), Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 13 substituted (12.1.2010 for specified purposes, 1.4.2010 in so far as not already in force) by Welfare Reform Act 2009 (c. 24), s. 61(3), Sch. 4 para. 7(5); S.I. 2010/45, art. 2(1)(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "S. 13: definition of “state pension credit” inserted (2.7.2002 for the purpose of making regulations, 6.10.2003 in so far as not already in force) by 2002 c. 16, s. 14, Sch. 2 Pt. 3 para. 49; S.I. 2002/1691, art. 2; S.I. 2003/1766, art. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 13 wholly in force at 1.4.2002; s. 13 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 20; s. 13 in force for specified purposes at 17.11.2001 and wholly in force at 1.4.2002 by S.I. 2001/3689, art. 2(1)(a)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2023/48",
      "affecting_title": "Veterans Advisory and Pensions Committees Act 2023"
    },
    {
      "type": "words repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2012/5",
      "affecting_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2012"
    },
    {
      "type": "words repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2012/5",
      "affecting_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2012"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2001/11/section/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:20:07.049690+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."
}