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The Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 2) (Amendment) Order 2012

S.I. 2012/1440 · Made 31 May 2012

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This Statutory Instrument corrects an error in S.I.2012/1246 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.

Social Security

Made 31st May 2012

The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 150(3) of the Welfare Reform Act 2012f1.

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

2012 c. 5.

Contents

  1. 1Citation
  2. 2Amendment of appointed day
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation

This Order may be cited as the Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 2) (Amendment) Order 2012.

2Amendment of appointed day

In article 2(2) of the Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 2) Order 2012f1, for “sections 122 to 125” substitute “sections 122, 123 and 125”

Signature

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.

Freud,

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,

Department for Work and Pensions

31st May 2012

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the second Commencement Order made under the Welfare Reform Act 2012 (c.5) (“the Act”) so as to prevent section 124 of the Act coming into force on 6th June 2012. Section 124 provides for offences of tax credit fraud up to the value of £20,000 to be tried summarily only.