The Universal Credit, Personal Independence Payment, Jobseeker’s Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 No. 221

PART 3 Supersessions

CHAPTER 1 Grounds for supersession

Sanctions cases

27.—(1) A decision as to the amount of an award of benefit may be superseded where the amount of that award is to be reduced by virtue of—

(a) section 11J(1) of the 2007 Act (sanctions);

(b) Article 8J(1) or 8K(1) of the Jobseekers Order (higher-level and other sanctions); or

(c) Article 31(1) or 32(1) of the 2015 Order (higher-level and other sanctions).

(2) A decision reducing an award of benefit by virtue of any of those provisions may be superseded where the reduction falls to be suspended or terminated.