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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-act-2012/schedule-12/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-act-2012/schedule-12/paragraph-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2012/5",
  "legislation_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-act-2012",
  "path": "schedule/12/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) In Schedule 7 to the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000 (housing benefit and council tax benefit), paragraph 4 (decisions superseding earlier decisions) is amended as follows.\n(2) In sub-paragraph (1), the “and” at the end of paragraph (a) is repealed and after that paragraph there is inserted—\n“(aa) any decision under this Schedule of an appeal tribunal or a Commissioner, and”.\n(3) In sub-paragraph (2)—\n(a) after “the decision appealed against to“ there is inserted “the tribunal or”;\n(b) after “the decision being appealed against to” there is inserted “ the Commissioner or ”.\n(4) After sub-paragraph (6) there is inserted—\n“(7) In this paragraph—\n“appeal tribunal” means an appeal tribunal constituted under Chapter 1 of Part 1 of the Social Security Act 1998 (the functions of which have been transferred to the First-tier Tribunal);\n“Commissioner” means a person appointed as a Social Security Commissioner under Schedule 4 to that Act (the functions of whom have been transferred to the Upper Tribunal), and includes a tribunal of such persons.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2012/5",
      "affecting_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2012"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2012/5/schedule/12/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:09:01.675536+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."
}