The Social Security and Housing Benefits Act 1982 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1982

Statutory Instruments

1982 No. 893 (C.23)

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT SOCIAL SECURITY

PENSIONS

The Social Security and Housing Benefits Act 1982 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1982

Made

30th June 1982

The Secretary of State for Social Services, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 48(3) of the Social Security and Housing Benefits Act 1982, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following order:—

Citation

1.  This order may be cited as the Social Security and Housing Benefits Act 1982 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1982.

Appointed days

2.  The day appointed for the coming into force of each provision of the Social Security and Housing Benefits Act 1982 (hereinafter in this order referred to as “the Act”) which is specified in column (1) of the Schedule to this order shall be the date specified in column (3) of that Schedule in relation to that provision.

Norman Fowler

Secretary of State for Social Services

30th June 1982

ARTICLE 2

SCHEDULE

PROVISION OF THE ACT	SUBJECT MATTER	DATE OF COMING INTO FORCE
(1)	(2)	(3)
Sections 1 to 6, 8 to 25 and 27 and Schedules 1 to 3	Statutory sick pay	6th April 1983
Section 37	Sick pay to count as remuneration for purposes of Social Security Act 1975	6th April 1983
Section 38	Supplementary allowance: conditions	18th October 1982
Section 39	Abolition of injury benefit	6th April 1983
Section 41	Recovery of sums due to Secretary of State	1st September 1982
Section 43	War pensions	30th August 1982
The following paragraphs of Schedule 4, and section 48(5) so far as it relates to those paragraphs—
paragraph 8	Meaning of “earnings” in Social Security Act 1975	6th April 1983
paragraphs 9, 10, 12, 13, 14(2), 15 and 17	Provisions consequential upon or connected with abolition of injury benefit	6th April 1983
paragraph 18(1) and (2)	Industrial injuries and diseases	30th June 1982
paragraph 18(3) and (4)	Provisions consequential upon or connected with abolition of injury benefit	6th April 1983
paragraph 20	Contracted-out occupational pension schemes	30th June 1982
paragraph 26	Supplementary benefits—recovery in cases of misrepresentation and non-disclosure	1st September 1982
paragraph 39	Statutory sick pay	6th April 1983
The following repeals in Schedule 5, and section 48(6) so far as it relates to those repeals—
the repeals of words in section 4(2) of the Social Security Act 1975	Contributions	30th June 1982
the repeal of the words “injury benefit or” in section 65(4) of that Act	Injury benefit	6th April 1983
the repeal of paragraph 2 of Schedule 11 to that Act	Attendance Allowance Board	30th June 1982
all other repeals affecting that Act, except section 65(4) thereof	Injury benefit	6th April 1983
the repeal of paragraph 39 of Schedule 4 to the Child Benefit Act 1975	Industrial diseases benefit schemes	6th April 1983
the repeal of words in Schedule 1 to the Social Security Act 1980	Injury benefit	6th April 1983
the repeal of section 3(2) of the Social Security (No. 2) Act 1980	Injury benefit	6th April 1983

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This order brings into force on 6th April 1983 all those provisions of the Social Security and Housing Benefits Act 1982 which relate to statutory sick pay and which did not come into force on the passing of the Act, and (with a minor exception) all those provisions which relate to the abolition of injury benefit. It does not bring into force any of the provisions of the Act which relate to housing benefit and associated matters. It brings into force the remaining, miscellaneous, provisions of the Act on various dates in 1982.