Explanatory note

This Order provides for the coming into operation of the following provisions of the Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007—

• paragraph 7 of Schedule 4 (which allows regulations to make provision for converting awards of incapacity benefit, severe disablement allowance and income support on disability grounds (“existing awards”) into awards of an employment and support allowance, or terminating such existing awards);

• paragraph 8 of Schedule 4 (which allows regulations to make provision in relation to aspects of awards of an employment and support allowance following their conversion from existing awards, such as their review or termination); and

• section 29 in so far as relating to those paragraphs,

on 9th September 2010.