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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-pension-credit-act-2002/schedule-2/paragraph-45",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2002/16",
  "legislation_title": "State Pension Credit Act 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-pension-credit-act-2002",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/45",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "45",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Section 7 (loss of benefit for commission of benefit offences) is amended as follows.\n(2) After subsection (4) (cases where sanctionable benefit is jobseeker’s allowance) insert—\n“(4A) The Secretary of State may by regulations provide that, where the sanctionable benefit is state pension credit, the benefit shall be payable in the offender’s case for any period comprised in the disqualification period as if the rate of the benefit were reduced in such manner as may be prescribed.”\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 45(3) repealed (1.4.2010) by Welfare Reform Act 2009 (c. 24), s. 61(3), Sch. 7 Pt. 3; S.I. 2010/293, art. 2(5)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 45 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 22(3); Sch. 2 in force for certain purposes at 2.7.2002 by S.I. 2002/1691, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 45 in force at 6.10.2003 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2003/1766, art. 2(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2009/24",
      "affecting_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2009"
    },
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2007/5",
      "affecting_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2007"
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    {
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      "affecting_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2007"
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      "affecting_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2007"
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    {
      "type": "repealed",
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    },
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2007/5",
      "affecting_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2007"
    },
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2012/5",
      "affecting_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2012"
    },
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2012/5",
      "affecting_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2012"
    },
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2012/5",
      "affecting_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2012"
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/16/schedule/2/paragraph/45",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:19:34.394153+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."
}