Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012

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15(1)Civil legal services provided in relation to a benefit, allowance, payment, credit or pension under—E+W

(a)a social security enactment,

(b)the Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979, or

(c)Part 4 of the Child Maintenance and Other Payments Act 2008.

(2)In this paragraph “social security enactment” means—

(a)the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992,

(b)the Jobseekers Act 1995,

(c)the State Pension Credit Act 2002,

(d)the Tax Credits Act 2002,

(e)the Welfare Reform Act 2007,

(f)the Welfare Reform Act 2012, or

(g)any other enactment relating to social security.