The Welfare Reform Act (Relevant Enactment) (Wales) Order 2009

This Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of an omission in S.I. 2009/2162 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.

Statutory Instruments

2009 No. 2687

Social Security, Wales

The Welfare Reform Act (Relevant Enactment) (Wales) Order 2009

Made

5th October 2009

Laid before Parliament

12th October 2009

Coming into force

9th November 2009

The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 42(7) of the Welfare Reform Act 2007(1).

Citation and commencement

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Welfare Reform Act (Relevant Enactment) (Wales) Order 2009.

(2) It comes into force on 9th November 2009.

Relevant enactment

2.  A relevant enactment for the purposes of section 42(1) of the Welfare Reform Act 2007 (information relating to certain benefits) is section 93(2) of the Local Government Act 2000(2) (grants for welfare services).

Yvette Cooper

Secretary of State

Department for Work and Pensions

5th October 2009

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

Information relating to certain benefits may be supplied under section 42(1) of the Welfare Reform Act 2007 to a person referred to in section 42(4) of that Act for purposes connected with the application of a grant paid under “a relevant enactment” towards expenditure incurred by the recipient of the grant in providing welfare services. This Order specifies section 93(2) of the Local Government Act 2000 (grants for welfare services) as a relevant enactment. Under section 93(2), the Welsh Ministers may pay grants to local authorities in Wales towards expenditure incurred in relation to welfare services.

This Order is supplemental to the Welfare Reform Act (Relevant Enactment) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/2162) which specifies section 31 of the Local Government Act 2003 (power to pay grant to a local authority) as a relevant enactment. That section empowers the Secretary of State and the Welsh Ministers to pay grants to local authorities in (respectively) England and Wales.

A full impact assessment has not been published for this instrument as it has no impact on the private or voluntary sectors.

(1)

2007 c. 5.

(2)

2000 c. 22. Section 93(2) conferred a power on the National Assembly for Wales established by the Government of Wales Act 1998 (c.38) to pay grants to local authorities in Wales towards expenditure incurred in relation to welfare services. Subsection (2) was amended by the Adoption and Children Act 2002 (c. 38), section 136(1) and (3); and the power under subsection (2) was transferred to the Welsh Ministers by paragraph 30 and 32 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32).