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8. In the Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 1999 M1—
(a)after regulation 3(8A) (revision of decisions), there shall be inserted the following paragraph—
“(8B) Where a court convicts a person of an offence, that conviction results in a restriction being imposed under section 7, 8 or 9 of the Social Security Fraud Act 2001 (loss of benefit provisions) and that conviction is quashed or set aside by that or any other court, a decision of the Secretary of State under section 8(1)(a) or 10 made in accordance with regulation 6(2)(j) or (k) may be revised at any time.”;
(b)after regulation 6(2)(i) (supersession of decisions), there shall be added the following sub-paragraphs—
“(j)is a decision of the Secretary of State that a sanctionable benefit is payable to a claimant where that benefit ceases to be payable or falls to be reduced under section 7 or 9 of the Social Security Fraud Act 2001 and for this purpose “sanctionable benefit” has the same meaning as in section 7 of that Act;
(k)is a decision of the Secretary of State that a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance is payable where that allowance ceases to be payable or falls to be reduced under section 8 of the Social Security Fraud Act 2001.”;
(c)after regulation 7(27) (date from which a decision superseded under section 10 takes effect), there shall be added the following paragraph—
“(28) A decision to which regulation 6(2)(j) or (k) applies shall take effect from the first day of the disqualification period prescribed for the purposes of section 7 of the Social Security Fraud Act 2001 M2.”.
Marginal Citations
M1S.I. 1999/991; the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2000/897 and 2001/1711.
M2The beginning of the disqualification period for the purposes of section 7 is prescribed in regulation 2 of the Social Security (Loss of Benefit) Regulations 2001 (S.I. 2001/4022).