This Chapter contains provisions about the reduction in the amount of an award of universal credit in the event of a failure by a claimant which is sanctionable under section 26 or 27 of the Act (“a sanctionable failure”).

How the period of the reduction for each sanctionable failure is to be determined is dealt with in regulations 101 to 105.

When the reduction begins or ceases to have effect is dealt with in regulations 106 to 109.

How the amount of a reduction is calculated for an assessment period in which the reduction has effect is set out in regulations 110 and 111.

Regulations 112 to 114 provide for some miscellaneous matters (movement of sanctions from a jobseeker’s allowance or an employment and support allowance, cases in which no reduction is made for a sanctionable failure and prescription of work placement scheme for the purposes of section 26(2)(a) of the Act).