The Social Security Fraud Act 2001 is amended as follows.
In section 6B (loss of benefit in case of conviction, penalty or caution for benefit offence), in subsection (3) for "later" there is substituted ." current "
Section 7 (loss of benefit for second or subsequent conviction of benefit offence) is amended as follows.
In the heading, for "second or subsequent conviction of benefit offence" there is substituted "repeated benefit fraud".
For subsection (1)(a) to (e) there is substituted—
In subsection (6), for the words from "in relation to" to the end, there is substituted ." in an offender's case, means the relevant period beginning with a prescribed date falling after the date of the conviction in the current set of proceedings "
After that subsection there is inserted—
After subsection (7) there is inserted—
In subsection (8), the following definitions are inserted at the appropriate places—
After that subsection there is inserted—
After subsection (10) there is inserted—
In section 11 (loss of benefit regulations), in subsection (3), after paragraph (e) (as inserted by section 118 above) there is inserted—