PART VIIOTHER AMENDMENTS

Amendment of the Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 1999

21.  In Schedule 2 to the Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 1999(1) (decisions against which no appeal lies), after paragraph 26, there shall be added the following paragraph—

Loss of benefit

27.  A decision of the Secretary of State that a sanctionable benefit as defined in section 7(8) of the Social Security Fraud Act 2001 is not payable, or is to be reduced, pursuant to section 7, 8 or 9 of that Act as a result of convictions for one or more benefit offences in each of two separate sets of proceedings, one offence being committed within 3 years of conviction for another, where the only ground of appeal is that any of the convictions was erroneous..

(1)

S.I. 1999/991. Relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1999/3178, 2000/897 and 1596.