Social Security Administration (Fraud) Act 1997

25 Commencement

(1) Sections 1 to 22 and the Schedules shall not come into force until such day as the Secretary of State may by order made by statutory instrument appoint.

(2) Different days may be appointed for different purposes.

(3) An order under this section may include such transitional provisions, consequential provisions or savings as the Secretary of State considers appropriate for the purposes of, or in connection with, the provisions to which it applies.

(4) An order under this section may provide that a provision of this Act is to come into force only in relation to an area specified in the order.

(5) Nothing in section 13 or 14 applies in relation to any act or omission occurring before the section comes into force.

(6) An order which provides that section 15 is to come into force only in relation to a specified area may also provide that (unless continued in force by a subsequent order) that section is to remain in force there only for a period specified in the order; and an order which so provides may include such transitional provisions, consequential provisions or savings as the Secretary of State considers appropriate in relation to that section’s ceasing to be in force in relation to that area at the end of that period.

(7) Section 15 does not apply in relation to an act or omission occurring in an area at a time when that section is not in force in relation to that area.