http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2012/5/section/50/enactedWelfare Reform Act 2012BenefitsTax creditsIncome supportCareEmployment terms and conditionsenKing's Printer of Acts of Parliament2024-03-26
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provision(s)The Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 9 and 21 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions (Amendment)) Order 2017art. 3Welfare Reform Act 2012specified provision(s)The Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 19, 22, 23 and 24 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions (Modification)) Order 2017art. 3 4 6-9 Sch.Welfare Reform Act 2012specified provision(s)The Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 19, 22, 23 and 24 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions (Modification)) Order 2017art. 3 4 6-9 Sch.Welfare Reform Act 2012specified provision(s)The Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 19, 22, 23 and 24 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions (Modification)) Order 2017art. 5 Sch.Welfare Reform Act 2012specified provision(s)The Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 29 and Commencement No. 17, 19, 22, 23 and 24 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions (Modification)) Order 2017art. 3-5 7-9 Sch.Welfare Reform Act 2012specified provision(s)The Welfare 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(Modification), Transitional and Transitory Provisions) Order 2018art. 6Welfare Reform Act 2012specified provision(s)The Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 9, 21 and 23 (Amendment), Commencement No. 11, 13, 17, 19, 22, 23 and 24 (Modification), Transitional and Transitory Provisions) Order 2018art. 6Welfare Reform Act 2012specified provision(s)The Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 17, 19, 22, 23 and 24 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions (Modification)) Order 2018art. 3 Sch.Welfare Reform Act 2012specified provision(s)The Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 17, 19, 22, 23 and 24 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions (Modification)) Order 2018art. 3 Sch.Welfare Reform Act 2012specified provision(s)The Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 17, 19, 22, 23 and 24 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions (Modification)) Order 2018art. 3 Sch.Welfare Reform Act 2012specified provision(s)The Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 17, 19, 22, 23 and 24 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions (Modification)) Order 2018art. 3 Sch.Welfare Reform Act 2012specified provision(s)The Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 17, 19, 22, 23 and 24 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions (Modification)) Order 2018art. 5
Part 2Working-age benefitsCHAPTER 2Employment and support allowanceConditions of entitlementDual entitlement
50
1
In section 1 of the Welfare Reform Act 2007 (employment and support allowance), after subsection (6) there is inserted—
6A
In subsection (3)(f), in relation to a contributory allowance, the reference to a couple entitled to a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance does not include a couple so entitled by virtue of regulations under paragraph 8A of Schedule 1 to the Jobseekers Act 1995.
2
In a case where—
a
an award of an employment and support allowance is made to a person in respect of any period of time before the coming into force of subsection (1), and
b
the person was not entitled to an employment and support allowance in relation to that period but would have been had subsection (1) been in force in relation to that period,
subsection (1) shall be regarded as having been in force in relation to that period.