Section 121 — Welfare Reform Act 2012: Cautions

Cautions 121 1 In section 6B of the Social Security Fraud Act 2001 (loss of benefit in case of conviction, penalty or caution for benefit offence)—

a in the heading, for “penalty or caution” there is substituted “ or penalty ” ;

b in subsection (1), after paragraph (a) there is inserted “or”;

c subsection (1)(c) (cautions) is repealed;

d in subsection (13), in the definition of “disqualifying event”, after “(1)(a)” there is inserted “or“.

2 In section 36A of the Tax Credits Act 2002 (loss of tax working tax credit in case of conviction, penalty or caution for benefit offence) subsection (1)(c) (cautions) is repealed.