{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-authorities-fraud-error-and-recovery-act-2025/section-103",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-authorities-fraud-error-and-recovery-act-2025/section-103.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2025/28",
  "legislation_title": "Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-authorities-fraud-error-and-recovery-act-2025",
  "path": "section/103",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "103",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Social Security Fraud Act 2001: loss of benefits following penalty",
  "text": "(1) The Social Security Fraud Act 2001 is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 6B(2) (loss of benefits in case of conviction, penalty or caution for benefit offence)—\n(a) in paragraph (a)—\n(i) omit the words from “section 115A” to “or”, and\n(ii) for the words “the corresponding provision for Northern Ireland” substitute “penalty as alternative to prosecution in Northern Ireland”, and\n(b) omit sub-paragraph (i) of paragraph (b).\n(3) In section 6C (section 6B: supplementary provision)—\n(a) in subsection (2)(b) omit the words “the Social Security Act 1998 or”, and\n(b) in subsection (3) omit the words “the Social Security Act 1998 or”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 103 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 109(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 103 in force at 1.4.2026 by S.I. 2026/371, reg. 2(g)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/28/section/103",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:27:04.329230+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."
}