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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-act-2012-commencement-no-20-and-transitional-and-transitory-provisions-and-commencement-no-9-and-transitional-and-transitory-provisions-amendment-order-2014/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2014/3094",
  "legislation_title": "The Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 20 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions and Commencement No. 9 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions (Amendment)) Order 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-act-2012-commencement-no-20-and-transitional-and-transitory-provisions-and-commencement-no-9-and-transitional-and-transitory-provisions-amendment-order-2014",
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  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Order—\n“the Act” means the Welfare Reform Act 2012;\n“the 1998 Act” means the Social Security Act 1998 ;\n“the amending provisions” means the provisions referred to in article 4(1)(a) to (c) of the No. 9 Order (day appointed for the abolition of income-related employment and support allowance and income-based jobseeker's allowance) ;\n“claimant”—\n(a)in relation to an employment and support allowance, has the same meaning as in Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act 2007 , save as mentioned in article 5(1A) of the No. 9 Order as applied by article 4(7) ;\n(b)in relation to a jobseeker's allowance, has the same meaning as in the Jobseekers Act 1995 (as it applies apart from the amendments made by Part 1 of Schedule 14 to the Act that remove references to an income-based jobseeker's allowance), save as mentioned in article 5(1A) of the No. 9 Order as applied by article 4(7);\n(c)in relation to universal credit, has the same meaning as in Part 1 of the Act ;\n“the Claims and Payments Regulations 2013” means the Universal Credit, Personal Independence Payment, Jobseeker's Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance (Claims and Payments) Regulations 2013 ;\n“the Digital Service Regulations 2014” means the Universal Credit (Digital Service) Amendment Regulations 2014 ;\n“employment and support allowance” means an employment and support allowance under Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act 2007;\n“First-tier Tribunal” has the same meaning as in the 1998 Act;\n“housing benefit” means housing benefit under section 130 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 ;\n“income support” means income support under section 124 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992;\n“jobseeker's allowance” means a jobseeker's allowance under the Jobseekers Act 1995;\n“joint claimants”, in relation to universal credit, has the same meaning as in Part 1 of the Act;\n“the No. 9 Order” means the Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 9 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions and Commencement No. 8 and Savings and Transitional Provisions (Amendment)) Order 2013 ;\n“the No. 28 relevant district” means the postcode part-district SM5 2;\n“single claimant”, in relation to universal credit, has the same meaning as in Part 1 of the Act;\n“specified condition” means the condition that a claimant is a British citizen who—\n(d)has resided in the United Kingdom throughout the period of two years ending with the date on which the claim for universal credit is made; and\n(e)has not, during that period, left the United Kingdom for a continuous period of four weeks or more;\n“state pension credit” means state pension credit under the State Pension Credit Act 2002 ;\n“tax credit” (including “child tax credit” and “working tax credit”) and “tax year” have the same meanings as in the Tax Credits Act 2002 ;\n“Upper Tribunal” has the same meaning as in the 1998 Act.\n(2) For the purposes of this Order—\n(a) the Claims and Payments Regulations 2013 apply for the purpose of deciding—\n(i) whether a claim for universal credit is made or treated as made; and\n(ii) the date on which such a claim is made; and\n(b) where a couple is treated, in accordance with regulation 9(8) of the Claims and Payments Regulations 2013 , as making a claim for universal credit, references to the date on which the claim is treated as made are to the date of formation of the couple.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1998 c.14."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "Article 4 was substituted by S.I. 2014/1452 (C. 56)."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "2007 c.5."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M4",
      "text": "Article 5(1A) was inserted by S.I. 2014/3067 (C.129)."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M5",
      "text": "1995 c.18."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M6",
      "text": "See section 40 of the Welfare Reform Act 2012."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M7",
      "text": "S.I. 2013/380."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M8",
      "text": "S.I. 2014/2887."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M9",
      "text": "1992 c.4."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M10",
      "text": "S.I. 2013/983 (C.41)."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M11",
      "text": "2002 c.16."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M12",
      "text": "2002 c.21. See sections 1(1) and (2), 48(1) and 67."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M13",
      "text": "Regulation 9(8) is amended by S.I. 2014/2887."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
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  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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