Legislation – The Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 32 and Savings and Transitional Provisions) Order 2019

“the Act” means the Welfare Reform Act 2012;

“joint-claim couple” has the same meanings as in the Jobseeker’s Act 1995;

“mixed-age couple” means a couple, one member of which has attained the qualifying age and the other of which has not;

“single claimant” means a person who makes a single claim for a tax credit as referred to in section 3(3)(b) of the 2002 Act;

“tax credit” (including “child tax credit” and “working tax credit”) have the same meanings as in the 2002 Act and “tax year” has the same meaning as in Part 1 of that Act;

“UC age condition” means the condition in section 4(1)(b) of the Act for Great Britain or Article 9(1)(b) of the 2015 Order (N.I.) for Northern Ireland, subject to any exceptions in any instrument made under the Act or 2015 Order (N.I.);

“UC couple” means a couple as defined in section 39 of the Act for Great Britain or Article 45 of the 2015 Order (N.I.) for Northern Ireland (in article 4, as defined in that section 39);

“UC joint claimants” means joint claimants as defined in section 40 of the Act for Great Britain or Article 46 of the 2015 Order (N.I.) for Northern Ireland (in article 4, as defined in that section 40);

“UC provisions” means the provisions listed in Schedule 2 to the No. 9 Order;

“UC single claimant” means a single claimant as defined in section 40 of the Act for Great Britain or Article 46 of the 2015 Order (N.I.) for Northern Ireland (in article 4, as defined in that section 40);

“UC transitional provisions” means the orders made under section 150(3) of the Act or Article 2(2) of the 2015 Order (N.I.) that commence the UC provisions, or the provisions listed in Schedule 1 to the No. 8 Order (N.I.), respectively, and the regulations made under Schedule 6 to the Act or Schedule 6 to the 2015 Order (N.I.).