{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-northern-ireland-order-2015/schedule-7/paragraph-12",
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  "legislation": "nisi/2015/2006",
  "legislation_title": "The Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-northern-ireland-order-2015",
  "path": "schedule/7/paragraph/12",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "The Social Security Fraud Act (Northern Ireland) 2001 (c. 17)",
  "text": "(1) Section 7 of the Social Security Fraud Act (Northern Ireland) 2001 (effect of offence on claim) is amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (2)—\n(a) at the beginning insert “ Except in prescribed circumstances ”;\n(b) in paragraph (b), for sub-paragraph (i) substitute—\n“(i) is a person whose failure sanctionable under Article 21, 21A or 21B of the Jobseekers Order has given rise to a reduction under that Article; or”.\n(3) Subsection (5) is repealed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 7 para. 12 in operation at 2.5.2016 for specified purposes by S.R. 2016/215, art. 2(3)(a)(iv)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 7 para. 12 in operation at 27.9.2017 in so far as not already in operation by S.R. 2017/190, art. 3(1)(2)(h)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "nisi/2015/2006",
      "affecting_title": "The Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015"
    },
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "nisi/2015/2006",
      "affecting_title": "The Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/2015/2006/schedule/7/paragraph/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:38:57.312183+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."
}