The Child Poverty Act 2010 (Extension of Publication Deadline) Order 2015

Statutory Instruments

2015 No. 83

Children And Young Persons

The Child Poverty Act 2010 (Extension of Publication Deadline) Order 2015

Made

23rd January 2015

Laid before Parliament

30th January 2015

Coming into force

6th March 2015

Following a request by the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission, the Minister of State for Schools makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 8B(5) of the Child Poverty Act 2010(1).

Citation and Commencement

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Child Poverty Act 2010 (Extension of Publication Deadline) Order 2015.

(2) It comes into force on 6th March 2015.

Extension of publication deadline for 2015

2.  The publication deadline, before which the Commission would otherwise be required by section 8B(1) of the Child Poverty Act 2010(2) to publish its third annual report, is extended from 8th May 2015 to 18th December 2015.

David Laws

Minister of State

Department for Education

23rd January 2015

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

Section 8B(1) of the Child Poverty Act 2010 requires the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission (“the Commission”) to publish reports annually before 8th May in each year. This Order, made under section 8B(5) of that Act following a request by the Commission, extends the publication deadline so that the report may be published at any time before 18th December 2015.

A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sectors is foreseen. An Explanatory Memorandum is available alongside this instrument on www.legislation.gov.uk.

(1)

2010 c.9. Section 8 is substituted, and sections 8A to 8C are inserted, by section 145 of, and paragraph 2 of Schedule 13 to, the Welfare Reform Act 2012 c.5 (“the 2012 Act”).

(2)

Section 8B(1) requires the Commission to publish a report before each anniversary of the coming into force of section 8B. Section 8B came into force on 8th May 2012 by virtue of section 150(2)(j) of the 2012 Act.