PART VII

OTHER AMENDMENTS

Amendment of the Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations
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In Schedule 1 to the Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 (decisions against which no appeal lies) after paragraph 24 there shall be added the following paragraph—

Loss of Benefit
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A decision of the Department that a sanctionable benefit as defined in section 6(8) of the Social Security Fraud Act (Northern Ireland) 2001 is not payable, or is to be reduced, pursuant to section 6, 7 or 8 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 were erroneous.
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S.R. 1999 No. 162; paragraph 24 was added by paragraph 7 of Schedule 4 to S.R. 2001 No. 176