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Citation and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Welfare Reform (2007 Act) (Commencement No. 3) Order (Northern Ireland) 2008.

(2) In this Order “the Act” means the Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007.

Appointed days

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

(a)section 30(2) and (3) of the Act (local housing allowance), for the purpose only of authorising the making of regulations, is 10th March 2008; and

(b)section 30 of the Act in so far as not already in operation, in Schedule 8 to the Act the repeal of section 129(4) of the Contributions and Benefits Act and section 58 of the Act in so far as it relates to that repeal, is 7th April 2008.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on 7th March 2008

(L.S.)

John O’Neill

A senior officer of the Department for Social Development