Commentary Section 8: Regulations about related offence
31.Section 8 enables the Secretary of State and the Welsh Ministers to make regulations, for England and Wales respectively, providing for the creation of offences that may be committed by a person refusing or failing to provide information when required to do so by or under regulations under section 7.
32.The intention is to create criminal offences equivalent to those that apply to persons failing to provide information in relation to social security fraud investigations under section 111 of the Social Security Administration Act 1992.