Part 6Miscellaneous

Child poverty

146UK child poverty strategies

1

Section 9 of the Child Poverty Act 2010 (UK strategies) is amended as follows.

2

In subsection (7)(a)(i)—

a

for “progress” there is substituted “measures”;

b

for “needs to be made” there is substituted “need to be taken”.

3

In subsection (7)(a)(ii)—

a

for “progress” there is substituted “measures”;

b

for “intends to make” there is substituted “proposes to take”;

c

for “in achieving” there is substituted “to achieve”.

4

In subsection (7)(b)—

a

for “progress” there is substituted “measures (other than those described under paragraph (a))”;

b

for “intends to make” there is substituted “proposes to take”;

c

for “in achieving” there is substituted “to achieve”;

d

the words from “otherwise than” to the end are repealed.

5

In subsection (8), for paragraphs (b) and (c) there is substituted “and

b

give an account (in such manner as the Secretary of State considers appropriate) of the effect of those measures, so far as relating to the purposes mentioned in subsection (2).