118 Benefit offences: period of sanction
Welfare Reform Act 2012 (2012 c 5) | Legislation

118  Benefit offences: period of sanction

(1)     The Social Security Fraud Act 2001 is amended as follows.

(2)     Section 6B (loss of benefit in case of conviction, penalty or caution for benefit offence) is amended as follows.

(3)     In subsection (11), for “the period of four weeks” there is substituted “the relevant period”.

(4)     After subsection (11) there is inserted—

“(11A)     For the purposes of subsection (11) the relevant period is—

(a)     in a case falling within subsection (1)(a) where the benefit offence, or one of them, is a relevant offence, the

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