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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-act-2009/schedule-4/paragraph-2",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2009/24",
  "legislation_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-act-2009",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Section 7 of the 2001 Act (loss of benefit for commission of benefit offences) is amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (8)—\n(a) after the definition of “benefit offence” insert—\n““post-commencement offence” means an offence committed on or after 1 April 2002 (the day on which this section came into force).”, and\n(b) omit the definitions of “disqualifying benefit” and “sanctionable benefit”.\n(3) In subsection (9)—\n(a) in paragraph (a), after “sentenced)” insert “ or in the case mentioned in paragraph (b)(ii) the date of the order for absolute discharge ”, and\n(b) for paragraph (b) substitute—\n“(b) references to a conviction include references to—\n(i) a conviction in relation to which the court makes an order for absolute or conditional discharge or a court in Scotland makes a probation order,\n(ii) an order for absolute discharge made by a court of summary jurisdiction in Scotland under section 246(3) of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 without proceeding to a conviction, and\n(iii) a conviction in Northern Ireland.”.\n(4) Omit subsection (11).\n(5) In the heading, for “commission of benefit offences” substitute “ second or subsequent conviction of benefit offence ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 2 in force at 12.1.2010 for specified purposes by S.I. 2010/45, art. 2(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 2 in force at 1.4.2010 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2010/45, art. 2(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2009/24",
      "affecting_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2009"
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    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2012/5",
      "affecting_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2012"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/24/schedule/4/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:10:45.980880+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."
}