The Universal Credit, Personal Independence Payment, Jobseeker’s Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016

CHAPTER 3 Procedure and effective date

Procedure for making an application for a revision

20.—(1) The Department may treat an application for a supersession under Article 11 of the 1998 Order as an application for a revision under Article 10 of that Order.

(2) The following paragraph applies where the Department, in order to consider all the issues raised by the application, requires further information or evidence from a person who has applied for a revision (“the applicant”).

(3) The Department must notify the applicant that—

(a) the further information or evidence specified in the notification is required;

(b) if the applicant provides the relevant information or evidence within one month of the date of notification or such longer period as the Department may allow, the decision may be revised taking such information or evidence into account; and

(c) if the applicant does not provide such information or evidence within that period, the decision may be revised using such information or evidence as was submitted with the application for revision.

Effective date of a revision

21.  Where, on a revision under Article 10 of the 1998 Order, the Department decides that the date from which the decision under Article 9 or 11 of that Order (“the original decision”) took effect was wrong, the revision takes effect from the date from which the original decision would have taken effect had the error not been made.