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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-act-northern-ireland-2010/schedule-3/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "nia/2010/13",
  "legislation_title": "Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2010",
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  "number": "1",
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  "text": "(1) Section 6 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 operation).”, an\n(b) omit the definitions of “disqualifying benefit” and “sanctionable benefit”.\n(3) In subsection (9) for paragraph (b) substitute—\n“(b) references to a conviction include references to a conviction in relation to which the court makes an order for absolute or conditional discharge and to a conviction in Great Britain (including a conviction in relation to which a court in Scotland makes a probation order or an order for absolute discharge without proceeding to a conviction).”.\n(4) In the heading, for “commission of benefit offences” substitute “ second or subsequent conviction of benefit offence ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
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    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "nisi/2015/2006",
      "affecting_title": "The Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015"
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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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