Legislation – Welfare Reform Act 2009

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Introduction

Part 1
Social security

1 Schemes for assisting persons to obtain employment: “work for your benefit” schemes etc.

2 Work-related activity: income support claimants and partners of claimants

3 Lone parents

4 Entitlement to jobseeker’s allowance without seeking employment etc.

5 Couples where at least one member capable of work

6 Statutory sick pay and employment and support allowance

7 Transitional provision relating to sections 4 to 6

8 Parliamentary procedure: regulations imposing work-related activity requirements on lone parents of children under 7

9 Abolition of income support

10 Power to direct claimant to undertake specific work-related activity

11 Claimants dependent on drugs etc.

12 Conditions for contributory jobseeker’s allowance

13 Conditions for contributory employment and support allowance

14 Mobility component

15 Maternity allowance and carer’s allowance

16 External provider social loans

17 Power to restrict availability of social fund loans

18 Supply of information to or by lenders making external provider social loans

19 Community care grants relating to specified goods or services

20 Community care grants: reviews and information

21 Regulations relating to information: parliamentary control

22 Payments on account

23 Power to up-rate benefits following review in tax year 2009-10

24 Loss of benefit provisions

25 Jobseeker’s allowance: sanctions for violent conduct etc. in connection with claim

26 Repeal of sections 62 to 66 of the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000

27 State pension credit: pilot schemes

28 Period for which pilot schemes have effect etc.

29 Exemption from jobseeking conditions for victims of domestic violence

30 Good cause for failure to comply with regulations etc.

31 Jobseekers’ agreements and action plans: well-being of children

32 Contracting out functions under Jobseekers Act 1995

33 Attendance in connection with jobseeker’s allowance: sanctions

34 Social security information and employment or training information

35 Persons under pensionable age to take part in work-focused interviews etc.

36 Power to rename council tax benefit

37 Minor amendments

Part 2
Disabled people: right to control provision of services

38 Purpose of Part 2

39 Relevant services

40 Relevant authority

41 Power to make provision enabling exercise of greater choice and control

42 Provision that may be made about direct payments

43 Exercise of rights on behalf of persons who lack capacity

44 Pilot schemes

45 The appropriate authority by which regulations under section 41 are made

46 Regulations under section 41: supplementary provisions

47 Consultation

48 Power to repeal exclusion of community care services

49 Regulations and orders: control by Parliament or other legislature

50 Interpretation of Part 2

Part 3
Child maintenance

51 Disqualification for holding etc. driving licence or travel authorisation

52 Report on operation of driving licence amendments

53 Report on operation of passport amendments

54 Payments of child support maintenance

55 Child support maintenance: offences relating to information

Part 4
Birth registration

56 Registration of births

Part 5
General

57 Consequential amendments of subordinate legislation

58 Repeals and revocations

59 Financial provisions

60 Extent

61 Commencement

62 Short title

SCHEDULES

Schedule 1 Amendments connected to section 4

Schedule 2 Abolition of income support: consequential amendments

Schedule 3 Claimants dependent on drugs etc.

Schedule 4 Loss of benefit provisions: further amendments

Schedule 5 Section 51: consequential amendments etc.

Schedule 6 Registration of births

Schedule 7 Repeals and revocations

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Schedule 7Repeals and revocations

Part 1Abolition of income support

Reference

Extent of repeal or revocation

Maintenance Orders Act 1950 (c. 37)

In section 4—

  1. (a)

    subsection (1)(d), and

  2. (b)

    in subsection (2), the words “or the said section 106”.

In section 9—

  1. (a)

    subsection (1)(d), and

  2. (b)

    in subsection (2), the words “or the said section 106”.

Transport Act 1982 (c. 49)

In section 70(2)(b), the words “income support,”.

Social Security Act 1986 (c. 50)

In Schedule 10, paragraphs 35 and 36.

Children Act 1989 (c. 41)

In section 17(9), the words “of income support under Part VII of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992,”.

In section 17A(5)(b), the words “of income support under Part 7 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (c. 4),”.

In section 29(3) and (3A), the words “of income support under Part VII of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992,”.

In Schedule 2, in paragraph 21(4), the words “of income support under Part VII of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992,”.

Child Support Act 1991 (c. 48)

In section 54(1), the definition of “income support”.

In Schedule 1 (as it has effect apart from the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000 (c. 6)), in paragraph 5(4), the words “income support,”.

Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c. 53)

In section 24—

  1. (a)

    in subsections (1) and (2)(d), the words “income support,”, and

  2. (b)

    in subsection (4), the definition of “income support”.

Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (c. 4)

Section 123(1)(a) and (2).

Section 124.

Sections 126 and 127.

Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c. 5)

Section 2A(2)(a).

Section 2AA(2)(a).

Section 2D(1), (3)(a), (8), (9)(b) and (10).

Section 2E(2)(a).

Section 5(2)(b).

In section 15A—

  1. (a)

    in subsection (1), the words “income support,” in each place, and

  2. (b)

    in subsection (4), in the definition of “qualifying associate”, the words “income support,” and, in the definition of “relevant benefits”, paragraph (b).

Section 71(11)(b).

In section 74—

  1. (a)

    in subsections (1)(b), (2)(b) and (3)(b)(i) and (ii), the words “income support,”,

  2. (b)

    in subsection (3)(c), the words “the income support or”, and

  3. (c)

    in subsection (3), in the words following paragraph (c), the words “income support” and the words “the income support or”.

In section 74A(7), the words “income support,”.

In section 78(6)(d), the words “income support or”.

In section 105(1)(b), the words “income support,”.

Section 106.

Section 108.

In section 109(1), the words “income support or” in both places.

Section 124(2)(b).

In section 126(1), the words “income support,”.

Sections 159 and 160.

Section 163(2)(d)(i).

Section 179(5)(a).

In section 191, in the definition of “income-related benefit”, paragraph (a).

Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1992 (c. 6)

In Schedule 2, paragraphs 3(1)(a) and (b) and (2) and 108.

Local Government Finance Act 1992 (c. 14)

In Schedule 4, in paragraph 6(1) and (2)(b), the words “income support,”.

In Schedule 8, in paragraph 6(1) and (2)(b), the words “income support,”.

Jobseekers Act 1995 (c. 18)

Section 1A(6).

In section 2(1), paragraph (d)
(together with the “and” immediately before it).

In section 3—

  1. (a)

    in subsection (1)(b), the words “income support,”,

  2. (b)

    subsection (1)(c), and

  3. (c)

    in subsection (1A)(a), the word “(c),”.

Section 3A(1)(b).

In section 16(1)(a)(ii), the words “or to income support”.

In section 26—

  1. (a)

    in subsection (1), the words “or to income support”,

  2. (b)

    in subsection (3), the words “or (as the case may be) income support”,

  3. (c)

    in subsection (4)(d), the words “and periods of entitlement to income support”,

  4. (d)

    in subsection (4)(e), the words “wholly by way of income support or”, and

  5. (e)

    in subsection (4)(l), the words “or to income support”.

In section 28(1), the words “or income support”.

Section 31.

In Schedule 2, paragraphs 30 to 32.

Employment Tribunals Act 1996 (c. 17)

In section 16(3)(a), (b) and (c) and (5)(e), the words “, income support”.

In section 17(1), the words “, income support” in both places and the words “or V”.

Education Act 1996 (c. 56)

Section 457(4)(b)(i).

Section 512ZB(4)(a)(i) and (b)(i).

Social Security Act 1998 (c. 14)

Section 8(3)(c).

In section 34(3), the words “or to income support”.

In Schedule 2—

  1. (a)

    paragraph 6(b)(i), and

  2. (b)

    in paragraph 7, the words “income support or” and the words “160(2) or”.

In Schedule 7, paragraphs 95 and 97.

Access to Justice Act 1999 (c. 22)

In Schedule 4, paragraph 48.

Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999 (c. 30)

In Schedule 7, paragraph 14.

In Schedule 8, paragraphs 27 and 28.

Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (c. 33)

Section 115(1)(e).

Children (Leaving Care) Act 2000 (c. 35)

In section 6(1), the words “income support or”.

Social Security Fraud Act 2001 (c. 11)

Section 6B(6).

Section 7(3).

Section 9(1)(a) and (3).

Section 11(3)(b).

Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Order 2001 (S.I. 2001/3929)

In Schedule 3, paragraph 24.

State Pension Credit Act 2002 (c. 16)

In Schedule 2, paragraph 2.

Tax Credits Act 2002 (c. 21)

In Schedule 3, paragraphs 16(2)(a), 18(a) and 20(a).

Secretaries of State for Education and Skills and for Work and Pensions Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/1397)

In Schedule 1, paragraph 7.

Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003 (c. 1)

In Schedule 6, paragraph 179.

Age-Related Payments Act 2004 (c. 10)

In section 2(3)(b), sub-paragraph (iii)
(together with the “or” immediately before it).

In section 8(1), the definition of “income support”.

Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33)

In Schedule 24, paragraphs 42 to 44 and 123.

Welfare Reform Act 2007 (c. 5)

In section 1(3), paragraph (e)
(but not the “and” at the end of it).

In section 24(1), the definition of “income support”.

In Schedule 1, in paragraph 6(1)(d), the words “, income support”.

In Schedule 3, paragraph 9(9) and (10).

Pensions Act 2007 (c. 22)

In Schedule 1, paragraph 25.

Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/1655)

In the Schedule, paragraph 16.

Child Maintenance and Other Payments Act 2008 (c. 6)

In Schedule 7, paragraph 2(2).

Saving Gateway Accounts Act 2009 (c. 8)

Section 3(2)(a).

This Act.

Section 3(1).

Section 5(1).

In Schedule 4, paragraph 6(3)(b).

The repeals and revocations made by this Part of this Schedule have effect in accordance with provision made by an order under section 9.