{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-loss-of-benefit-consequential-amendments-regulations-2002/regulation-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-loss-of-benefit-consequential-amendments-regulations-2002/regulation-9.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/490",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Loss of Benefit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-loss-of-benefit-consequential-amendments-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 2001",
  "text": "In the Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 2001 —\n(a) after regulation 4(7) (revision of decisions), there shall be inserted the following paragraph—\n“(7A) Where a court convicts a person of an offence, that conviction results in a restriction being imposed under section 7, 8 or 9 of the Social Security Fraud Act 2001 (loss of benefit provisions) and that conviction is quashed or set aside by that or any other court, a decision of the relevant authority made in accordance with regulation 7(2)(g) or (h) may be revised at any time.”;\n(b) after regulation 7(2)(f) (decisions superseding earlier decisions), there shall be added the following sub-paragraphs—\n“(g) which is affected by a decision of the Secretary of State that a sanctionable benefit payable to a claimant ceases to be payable or falls to be reduced under section 7 or 9 of the Social Security Fraud Act 2001 and for this purpose “sanctionable benefit” has the same meaning as in section 7 of that Act; or\n(h) which is affected by a decision of the Secretary of State that a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance ceases to be payable or falls to be reduced under section 8 of the Social Security Fraud Act 2001.”;\n(c) after regulation 8(8) (date from which a decision superseding an earlier decision takes effect), there shall be added the following paragraph—\n“(9) A decision to which regulation 7(2)(g) or (h) applies shall take effect from the first day of the disqualification period prescribed for the purposes of section 7 of the Social Security Fraud Act 2001.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 2001/1002."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/490/regulation/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:13:54.302345+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."
}