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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-act-2012/schedule-5/paragraph-2",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2012/5",
  "legislation_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-act-2012",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Regulations may make provision as to the amount payable by way of a relevant benefit where a person is entitled to that benefit and universal credit.\n(2) Regulations under sub-paragraph (1) may in particular provide for no amount to be payable by way of a relevant benefit.\n(3) Regulations may, where a person is entitled to a relevant benefit and universal credit—\n(a) make provision as to the application of work-related requirements;\n(b) make provision as to the application of sanctions.\n(4) Provision under sub-paragraph (3)(a) includes in particular—\n(a) provision securing that compliance with a work-related requirement for a relevant benefit is to be treated as compliance with a work-related requirement for universal credit;\n(b) provision disapplying any requirement on the Secretary of State to impose, or a person to comply with, a work-related requirement for a relevant benefit or universal credit.\n(5) Provision under sub-paragraph (3)(b) includes in particular—\n(a) provision for the order in which sanctions are to be applied to awards of relevant benefit and universal credit;\n(b) provision to secure that the application of a sanction to an award of a relevant benefit does not result in an increase of the amount of an award of universal credit.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 2 in force at 25.2.2013 by S.I. 2013/358, art. 2(2), Sch. 2 para. 41"
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  "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."
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