{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-authorities-fraud-error-and-recovery-act-2025-commencement-no-2-regulations-2026/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-authorities-fraud-error-and-recovery-act-2025-commencement-no-2-regulations-2026/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2026/371",
  "legislation_title": "The Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Act 2025 (Commencement No. 2) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-authorities-fraud-error-and-recovery-act-2025-commencement-no-2-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Commencement",
  "text": "The following provisions of the Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Act 2025 come into force, in so far as they are not already in force, on 1st April 2026—\n(a) sections 1 to 72 (functions exercisable on behalf of public authorities);\n(b) section 74 (interpretation);\n(c) section 75 (regulations);\n(d) section 93 (enforcement of non-benefit payments);\n(e) section 101 (offences: non-benefit payments);\n(f) section 102 (penalty as alternative to prosecution: extension to non-benefit payments);\n(g) section 103 (amendments to the Social Security Fraud Act 2001: loss of benefits following penalty);\n(h) Schedule 1 (fraud against public authorities: Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 powers).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See section 109(2)(b) of the Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Act 2025 which provides for certain provisions, namely those that confer power to make regulations or are necessary to enable the exercise of such a power, to come into force on the day on which the Act is passed."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2001 c. 11."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1984 c. 60."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/371/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:03:13.297771+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}