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Amendment of the Universal Credit Regulations 2013

3.  In the table in paragraph (2) of regulation 102 (higher-level sanction) of the Universal Credit Regulations 2013(1)—

(a)in the row beginning “where there have been one or more previous sanctionable failures by the claimant giving rise to a higher-level sanction and the date of the most recent previous sanctionable failure is within 365 days”—

(i)in paragraph (d) (182 days), in the second column (reduction period where claimant aged 18 or over), for “1095 days” substitute “182 days”;

(ii)omit paragraph (e) (1095 days) and the corresponding entry in the second column;

(b)in the row beginning “where there have been one or more previous sanctionable failures by the claimant giving rise to a higher-level sanction and the date of the most recent previous sanctionable failure is within 14 days”, omit paragraph (e) (1095 days) and the corresponding entry in the second column.

(1)

S.I. 2013/376, amended by S.I. 2016/678; there is another amending instrument but it is no longer relevant.