The Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016 (Commencement No. 1) Regulations 2016

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations—

(a) bring into force section 3 of the Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016 (“the Act”) on 16th May 2016, which requires the Secretary of State to prepare an annual report on progress made by families who receive support as part of the Troubled Families Programme,

(b) bring into force section 22 of the Act on 30th May 2016, which will enable the Secretary of State to make regulations to recover administrative costs of making certain benefit payments to an organisation that leases or sells motor vehicles to disabled persons,

(c) bring into force paragraph 8(1) of Schedule 2 to the Act on the day after the Regulations are made which will enable the Secretary of State to issue guidance about determining for the purposes of paragraph 1(5)(a)(iii) or (iv) of that schedule what rate of rent is likely to have been payable by a tenant of particular social housing at a particular time, and

(d) bring into force on 1st April 2016 all the social housing rents provisions(1) of the Act not already in force on that date, apart from paragraphs (b) and (c) of section 33 which relate to tenancies under Schedule 1 to the Rent Act 1977.

(1)

The social housing rents provisions are sections 23 to 33 of, and Schedule 2 to, the Act. See section 33(1).