The Social Security (Loss of Benefit) Amendment Regulations 2002
These Regulations are made in connection with the coming into force of sections 7 to 13 of the Social Security Fraud Act 2001 (c. 11) (“the Act”) which relate to restrictions in payment of certain benefits where a person has been convicted of one or more benefit offences in each of two separate proceedings and one offence is committed within three years of the conviction for another such offence.