{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-act-2009/schedule-7/part-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-act-2009/schedule-7/part-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2009/24",
  "legislation_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-act-2009",
  "path": "schedule/7/part/1",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Abolition of income support",
  "text": "The repeals and revocations made by this Part of this Schedule have effect in accordance with provision made by an order under section 9.\nReference\nExtent of repeal or revocation\nMaintenance Orders Act 1950 (c. 37)\nIn section 4—\n(a)subsection (1)(d), and\n(b)in subsection (2), the words “or the said section 106”.\nIn section 9—\n(a)subsection (1)(d), and\n(b)in subsection (2), the words “or the said section 106”.\nTransport Act 1982 (c. 49)\nIn section 70(2)(b), the words “income support,”.\nSocial Security Act 1986 (c. 50)\nIn Schedule 10, paragraphs 35 and 36.\nChildren Act 1989 (c. 41)\nIn section 17(9), the words “of income support under Part VII of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992,”.\nIn section 17A(5)(b), the words “of income support under Part 7 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (c. 4),”.\nIn section 29(3) and (3A), the words “of income support under Part VII of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992,”.\nIn Schedule 2, in paragraph 21(4), the words “of income support under Part VII of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992,”.\nChild Support Act 1991 (c. 48)\nIn section 54(1), the definition of “income support”.\nIn 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,”.\nCriminal Justice Act 1991 (c. 53)\nIn section 24—\n(a)in subsections (1) and (2)(d), the words “income support,”, and\n(b)in subsection (4), the definition of “income support”.\nSocial Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (c. 4)\nSection 123(1)(a) and (2).\nSection 124.\nSections 126 and 127.\nSocial Security Administration Act 1992 (c. 5)\nSection 2A(2)(a).\nSection 2AA(2)(a).\nSection 2D(1), (3)(a), (8), (9)(b) and (10).\nSection 2E(2)(a).\nSection 5(2)(b).\nIn section 15A—\n(a)in subsection (1), the words “income support,” in each place, and\n(b)in subsection (4), in the definition of “qualifying associate”, the words “income support,” and, in the definition of “relevant benefits”, paragraph (b).\nSection 71(11)(b).\nIn section 74—\n(a)in subsections (1)(b), (2)(b) and (3)(b)(i) and (ii), the words “income support,”,\n(b)in subsection (3)(c), the words “the income support or”, and\n(c)in subsection (3), in the words following paragraph (c), the words “income support” and the words “the income support or”.\nIn section 74A(7), the words “income support,”.\nIn section 78(6)(d), the words “income support or”.\nIn section 105(1)(b), the words “income support,”.\nSection 106.\nSection 108.\nIn section 109(1), the words “income support or” in both places.\nSection 124(2)(b).\nIn section 126(1), the words “income support,”.\nSections 159 and 160.\nSection 163(2)(d)(i).\nSection 179(5)(a).\nIn section 191, in the definition of “income-related benefit”, paragraph (a).\nSocial Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1992 (c. 6)\nIn Schedule 2, paragraphs 3(1)(a) and (b) and (2) and 108.\nLocal Government Finance Act 1992 (c. 14)\nIn Schedule 4, in paragraph 6(1) and (2)(b), the words “income support,”.\nIn Schedule 8, in paragraph 6(1) and (2)(b), the words “income support,”.\nJobseekers Act 1995 (c. 18)\nSection 1A(6).\nIn section 2(1), paragraph (d) (together with the “and” immediately before it).\nIn section 3—\n(a)in subsection (1)(b), the words “income support,”,\n(b)subsection (1)(c), and\n(c)in subsection (1A)(a), the word “(c),”.\nSection 3A(1)(b).\nIn section 16(1)(a)(ii), the words “or to income support”.\nIn section 26—\n(a)in subsection (1), the words “or to income support”,\n(b)in subsection (3), the words “or (as the case may be) income support”,\n(c)in subsection (4)(d), the words “and periods of entitlement to income support”,\n(d)in subsection (4)(e), the words “wholly by way of income support or”, and\n(e)in subsection (4)(l), the words “or to income support”.\nIn section 28(1), the words “or income support”.\nSection 31.\nIn Schedule 2, paragraphs 30 to 32.\nEmployment Tribunals Act 1996 (c. 17)\nIn section 16(3)(a), (b) and (c) and (5)(e), the words “, income support”.\nIn section 17(1), the words “, income support” in both places and the words “or V”.\nEducation Act 1996 (c. 56)\nSection 457(4)(b)(i).\nSection 512ZB(4)(a)(i) and (b)(i).\nSocial Security Act 1998 (c. 14)\nSection 8(3)(c).\nIn section 34(3), the words “or to income support”.\nIn Schedule 2—\n(a)paragraph 6(b)(i), and\n(b)in paragraph 7, the words “income support or” and the words “160(2) or”.\nIn Schedule 7, paragraphs 95 and 97.\nAccess to Justice Act 1999 (c. 22)\nIn Schedule 4, paragraph 48.\nWelfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999 (c. 30)\nIn Schedule 7, paragraph 14.\nIn Schedule 8, paragraphs 27 and 28.\nImmigration and Asylum Act 1999 (c. 33)\nSection 115(1)(e).\nChildren (Leaving Care) Act 2000 (c. 35)\nIn section 6(1), the words “income support or”.\nSocial Security Fraud Act 2001 (c. 11)\nSection 6B(6).\nSection 7(3).\nSection 9(1)(a) and (3).\nSection 11(3)(b).\nCivil Jurisdiction and Judgments Order 2001 (S.I. 2001/3929)\nIn Schedule 3, paragraph 24.\nState Pension Credit Act 2002 (c. 16)\nIn Schedule 2, paragraph 2.\nTax Credits Act 2002 (c. 21)\nIn Schedule 3, paragraphs 16(2)(a), 18(a) and 20(a).\nSecretaries of State for Education and Skills and for Work and Pensions Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/1397)\nIn Schedule 1, paragraph 7.\nIncome Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003 (c. 1)\nIn Schedule 6, paragraph 179.\nAge-Related Payments Act 2004 (c. 10)\nIn section 2(3)(b), sub-paragraph (iii) (together with the “or” immediately before it).\nIn section 8(1), the definition of “income support”.\nCivil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33)\nIn Schedule 24, paragraphs 42 to 44 and 123.\nWelfare Reform Act 2007 (c. 5)\nIn section 1(3), paragraph (e) (but not the “and” at the end of it).\nIn section 24(1), the definition of “income support”.\nIn Schedule 1, in paragraph 6(1)(d), the words “, income support”.\nIn Schedule 3, paragraph 9(9) and (10).\nPensions Act 2007 (c. 22)\nIn Schedule 1, paragraph 25.\nCivil Jurisdiction and Judgments Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/1655)\nIn the Schedule, paragraph 16.\nChild Maintenance and Other Payments Act 2008 (c. 6)\nIn Schedule 7, paragraph 2(2).\nSaving Gateway Accounts Act 2009 (c. 8)\nSection 3(2)(a).\nThis Act.\nSection 3(1).\nSection 5(1).\nIn Schedule 4, paragraph 6(3)(b).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2012/5",
      "affecting_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2012"
    }
  ],
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