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The Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 31 and Savings and Transitional Provisions and Commencement No. 21 and 23 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions (Amendment)) Order 2019

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  • This Order may be cited as the Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 31 and Savings and Transitional Provisions and Commencement No. 21 and 23 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions (Amendment) ) Order 2019.
    • (1) In this Order—in reference to entitlement to housing benefit, where it has the same meaning as in Part VII of the 1992 Act; andin article 7(3) , in relation to references to persons being treated as a couple in accordance with article 7(2) (a) (ii) , where it has the meaning referred to in article 7(2) (a) (ii) “mixed-age couple” means a couple, one member of which has attained the qualifying age for state pension credit and the other of which has not; andthe definition in sub-paragraph (a) includes a polygamous marriage where at least one party to the marriage has attained the qualifying age for state pension credit and at least one has not.(3) Save as stated to the contrary in article 6(2) regulation 16A (date of entitlement under an award of state pension credit for the purpose of payability and effective date of change of rate) regulation 57 (date on which entitlement is to commence) of the Housing Benefit SPC Regulations; andF20save in article 7(3) (a) , a reference to claiming or entitlement to state pension credit or housing benefit as part of a F21mixed-age couple is a reference to F22a person claiming or being so entitled, on the basis that F23the person is a member of a couple or ... a polygamous marriage.
  • 15th May 2019 is the appointed day for the coming into force of paragraph 64 (universal credit amendments: insertion of section 4(1A) into the 2002 Act) of Schedule 2 to the 2012 Act, and section 31 of the 2012 Act in so far as it relates to that paragraph.
    • state pension credit;housing benefit; orstate pension credit and housing benefit.(2) The savings in the sub-paragraphs of paragraph (1) shall cease to have effect in relation to the member of the mixed-age couple referred to on any day after the appointed day when that person is not entitled to either state pension credit or housing benefit as part of the same mixed-age couple.(1) The following amendments of the No. 21 Order and the No. 23 Order have effect from the day after the day of making of this Order.(2) For article 6(3) (a) of the No. 21 Order before 15th May 2019; oron or after 15th May 2019 where one of the savings in the sub-paragraphs of article 4(1) of the Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 31 and Savings and Transitional Provisions and Commencement No. 21 and 23 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions (Amendment) ) Order 2019 applies to that person and the saving has not ceased to have effect under article 4(2) of that Order, and(1) The awards of housing benefit referred to in paragraph (2) are to terminate on the day referred to in paragraph (3) , subject to paragraph (4) .

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