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title: "The Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Act 2025 (Commencement No. 2) Regulations 2026"
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# The Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Act 2025 (Commencement No. 2) Regulations 2026

## Title and introductory text {#prelims}

2026 No. 371 (C. 32)
SOCIAL SECURITY
PUBLIC SECTOR FRAUD, ENGLAND AND WALES
The Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Act 2025 (Commencement No. 2) Regulations 2026
Made
25th March 2026
The Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 109(1) of the Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Act 2025.

## 1 Citation {#regulation-1}

These Regulations may be cited as the Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Act 2025 (Commencement No. 2) Regulations 2026.

## 2 Commencement {#regulation-2}

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—
(a) sections 1 to 72 (functions exercisable on behalf of public authorities);
(b) section 74 (interpretation);
(c) section 75 (regulations);
(d) section 93 (enforcement of non-benefit payments);
(e) section 101 (offences: non-benefit payments);
(f) section 102 (penalty as alternative to prosecution: extension to non-benefit payments);
(g) section 103 (amendments to the Social Security Fraud Act 2001: loss of benefits following penalty);
(h) Schedule 1 (fraud against public authorities: Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 powers).