Regulation 1 Citation and commencement

(1)

These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2011.

(2)

Regulations 1 and 12 to 15 come into force on 4th April 2011 in relation to any case where rent is payable at intervals of a week or any multiple of whole weeks, and in any other case on 1st April 2011.

(3)

Regulations 3(5) and (6)(a), 7(6) and (7)(c), 11 and 16(11)(a), (12) and (13), so far as they relate to a particular claimant, come into force on the first day of the first benefit week to commence for that claimant on or after 11th April 2011.

(4)

All other regulations come into force on 11th April 2011.

(5)

In this regulation “benefit week” has the same meaning—

(a)

for income support, as in regulation 2(1) (interpretation) of the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987^f1;

(b)

for jobseeker’s allowance, as in regulation 1(3) (citation, commencement and interpretation) of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996^f2; and

(c)

for employment and support allowance, as in regulation 2(1) (interpretation) of the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2008^f3.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: S.I. 1987/1967.
f2: S.I. 1996/207. The definition of “benefit week” was substituted by regulation 3 of S.I. 2009/604.
f3: S.I. 2008/794.