The Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 2006

Criminal offence

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102.  Any failure by the supplier to supply relevant information to the requirer as, when and how required under regulations 98 to 101 shall be an offence under section 113 of the Administration Act F1 and there may be recovered from the supplier, on summary conviction for this offence, penalties not exceeding—

(a)for any one offence, level 3 on the standard scale; or

(b)for an offence of continuing any such failure after conviction, £40 for each day on which it is so continued.

Textual Amendments

F1Section 113 was substituted by the Social Security Act 1998 (c. 14).