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The Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No.8 and Savings and Transitional Provisions) Order 2013

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Appointed day and saving for provisions relating to overpayments

5.—(1) 25th February 2013 is the day appointed for the coming into force of paragraph 7 of Schedule 2 to the 2012 Act (which relates to recovery of benefits), paragraph 3 of Schedule 2 in so far as it relates to paragraph 7 and section 31 of the 2012 Act in so far as it relates to those paragraphs.

(2) 29th April 2013 is the day appointed for the coming into force of the provisions of the 2012 Act mentioned in paragraphs (3) to (5) (which also relate to the recovery of benefit payments).

(3) In relation to section 105 (recovery of benefit payments)—

(a)subsection (1) of that section, in so far as it is not already in force; except in so far as it inserts section 71ZB(1)(d) of the 1992 Act and the word “and” immediately preceding it;

(b)subsections (3), (5) and (6) of that section; and

(c)subsection (7) of that section, in so far as it inserts paragraph 6B of Schedule 3 to the Social Security Act 1998(1).

(4) In relation to Part 11 of Schedule 14, the repeals of—

(a)section 71(10A) and (10B) of the 1992 Act; and

(b)subject to paragraph (6), section 71(11)(aa) and (ac) of the 1992 Act.

(5) Paragraph 9 of Schedule 2, paragraph 3 of Schedule 2 in so far as it relates to paragraph 9 and section 31 in so far as it relates to those paragraphs.

(6) Despite paragraph (4)(b), the benefits referred to in section 71(11)(aa) and (ac) of the 1992 Act remain benefits to which section 71 of the 1992 Act apply to the extent that those benefits have been claimed before 29th April 2013.

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