The Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000 (Commencement No. 9) Order 2001

Citation and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000 (Commencement No. 9) Order 2001.

(2) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to a numbered section or Schedule is a reference to the section or, as the case may be, the Schedule bearing that number in the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000.

Appointed days

2.  The day appointed for the coming into force of—

(a) section 55 (prohibition on occupational pension schemes having different rules for overseas residents, etc.), is 23rd July 2001;

(b) Part II of Schedule 5 (alternative to anti-franking rules), so far as not already brought into force, and section 56 so far as it relates to that Part, is 6th April 2002;

(c) section 70 (grants towards cost of discretionary housing payments)—

(i) for the purpose of authorising the making of an order under that section, is 26th June 2001, and

(ii) for all other purposes, is 2nd July 2001; and

(d) section 71 (recovery of housing benefit), so far as not already brought into force, is 1st October 2001.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.

Malcolm Wicks

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,

Department for Work and Pensions

22nd June 2001