The Personal Independence Payment (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2013

Statutory Instruments

2013 No. 387

Social Security

The Personal Independence Payment (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2013

Made

25th February 2013

Laid before Parliament

4th March 2013

Coming into force

8th April 2013

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 93 and 94 of, and Schedule 10 to, the Welfare Reform Act 2012(1), makes the following regulations.

These Regulations are made under the provisions of that Act and are made before the end of a period of 6 months beginning with the coming into force of those provisions of that Act(2).

(1)

2012 c. 5.

(2)

See section 173(5)(a) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c.5) (‘the 1992 Act’). The requirement to refer regulations to the Social Security Advisory Committee does not apply where regulations are contained in a statutory instrument made before the end of the period of six months beginning with the coming into force of the enactment under which the regulations were made. Schedule 9, paragraph 26(a) to the Welfare Reform Act 2012 (c.5) (‘the Act’) inserted a reference to Part 4 of that Act into section 170(5) of the 1992 Act which has the effect of making that Part of the Act a ‘relevant enactment’ and therefore subject to the requirement to refer regulations to the Social Security Advisory Committee unless an exemption in section 173 applies.