# The Social Security (Loss of Benefit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2002, Regulation 9: Amendment of the Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 2001


In the Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 2001 —
(a) after regulation 4(7) (revision of decisions), there shall be inserted the following paragraph—
“(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.”;
(b) after regulation 7(2)(f) (decisions superseding earlier decisions), there shall be added the following sub-paragraphs—
“(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
(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.”;
(c) after regulation 8(8) (date from which a decision superseding an earlier decision takes effect), there shall be added the following paragraph—
“(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.”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/490/regulation/9 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-loss-of-benefit-consequential-amendments-regulations-2002/regulation-9
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