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Social Security Act 2018

Enforcement: sanctions and offences - Sanctions for breach of obligations other than young person or young parent obligations - Procedure for imposing sanction

253: Notice relates to single failure

You could also call this:

“One notice covers one mistake, even if it mentions many”

When you receive a notice about a sanction, it might mention more than one time you didn’t follow the rules. These could be about the same rule or different rules you were supposed to follow. Even if the notice talks about multiple times you didn’t follow the rules, it’s treated as if you only made one mistake. This is true as long as you don’t disagree with at least two of the times mentioned in the notice. The government looks at all these instances together as one single failure when deciding on a sanction.

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Part 5 Enforcement: sanctions and offences
Sanctions for breach of obligations other than young person or young parent obligations: Procedure for imposing sanction

253Notice relates to single failure

  1. A notice of a sanction given to a person (P) may specify more than 1 instance of failure.

  2. Each specified instance may relate to the same obligation, or to 2 or more different obligations.

  3. However, for the purposes of imposing a sanction, the combined specified instances are (if at least 2 of them are not disputed by P) treated as a single failure.

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