{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-fraud-act-northern-ireland-2001/section-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-fraud-act-northern-ireland-2001/section-12.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2001/17",
  "legislation_title": "Social Security Fraud Act (Northern Ireland) 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-fraud-act-northern-ireland-2001",
  "path": "section/12",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Interpretation of sections 5A to 11",
  "text": "In this section and sections 5A to 11—\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;\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n“family” has the same meaning as in Part VII of the Contributions and Benefits Act;\n“income-based jobseeker's allowance”, “joint-claim jobseeker's allowance” and “joint-claim couple” have the same meanings as in the Jobseekers Order;\n“income-related allowance” has the same meaning as in Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007 (employment and support allowance);\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n“sanctionable benefit” has the meaning given by section 5A;\n“state pension credit” means state pension credit under the State Pension Credit Act (Northern Ireland) 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": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 12 substituted (13.8.2010) by Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2010 (c. 13), ss. 19(2)(a), 36(1)(e), Sch. 3 para. 6(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 12: definition of \"cautioned\" inserted (13.8.2010) by Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2010 (c. 13), ss. 19(2)(a), 36(1)(e), Sch. 3 para. 6(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 12: definition of \"disqualification period\" repealed (13.8.2010) by Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2010 (c. 13), ss. 19(2)(a), 36(1)(e), Sch. 3 para. 6(4) (the said repeal is also cited in the repeals Schedule of the amending act in Sch. 4 Pt. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 12: definition of \"income-related allowance\" inserted (1.7.2008 for certain purposes otherwise 27.10.2008) by Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007 (c. 2), ss. 28, 60, Sch. 3 para. 14(8); S.R. 2008/276, art. 2(2)(c), Sch. Pt. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 12: definition of \"post-commencement offence\" repealed (13.8.2010) by Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2010 (c. 13), ss. 19(2)(a), 36(1)(e), Sch. 3 para. 6(4) (the said repeal is also cited in the repeals Schedule of the amending act in Sch. 4 Pt. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "S. 12: words in definition of \"sanctionable benefit\" substituted (13.8.2010) by Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2010 (c. 13), ss. 19(2)(a), 36(1)(e), Sch. 3 para. 6(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "2002 c. 14 (NI)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in s. 12 heading substituted (13.8.2010) by Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2010 (c. 13), ss. 19(2)(a), 36(1)(e), Sch. 3 para. 6(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words repealed",
      "affecting": "nisi/2015/2006",
      "affecting_title": "The Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015"
    },
    {
      "type": "words repealed",
      "affecting": "nisi/2015/2006",
      "affecting_title": "The Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2001/17/section/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:21:42.996295+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."
}