Citation and interpretation1
1
This Order may be cited as the Welfare Reform (2007 Act) (Commencement No. 5) Order (Northern Ireland) 2008.
2
In this Order any reference to a numbered Part, section or Schedule is to the Part or section of, or Schedule to, the Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007 bearing that number.
Appointed days2
1
The day appointed for the coming into operation of sections 32 to 34 (housing benefit for persons taking up employment, supplemental and interpretation)—
a
for the purpose only of authorising the making of regulations, is 1st July 2008; and
b
for all other purposes, is 6th October 2008.
2
The day appointed for the coming into operation of—
a
sections 25(1) and (2), 26(1) and 28(2) (regulations, Assembly control and power to make consequential amendments), paragraphs 4(1), (2) and (28) and 10(1), (3) and (6) of Schedule 3 (consequential amendments relating to Part 1) and paragraphs 1(1), 2 and 3(b) to (d) of Schedule 4 (transition relating to Part 1) and sections 28(1) and 29 in so far as relating to those paragraphs—
i
for the purpose only of authorising the making of regulations, is 1st July 2008, and
ii
for all other purposes, is 27th July 2008;
b
paragraph 10(2) of Schedule 3 and paragraphs 1(2) and 11 of Schedule 4 and sections 28(1) and 29 in so far as relating to those paragraphs, is 27th July 2008;
c
the provisions specified in Part 1 of the Schedule—
i
for the purpose only of authorising the making of regulations, is 1st July 2008, and
ii
for all other purposes, is 27th October 2008; and
d
the provisions specified in Part 2 of the Schedule, is 27th October 2008.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on 30th June 2008