{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-act-2012-commencement-no-35-abolition-of-benefits-order-2025/article-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2025/1148",
  "legislation_title": "The Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 35) (Abolition of Benefits) Order 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-act-2012-commencement-no-35-abolition-of-benefits-order-2025",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation and Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 35) (Abolition of Benefits) Order 2025.\n(2) In this Order—\n“the 2007 Act” means the Welfare Reform Act 2007;\n“the Act” means the Welfare Reform Act 2012;\n“the amending provisions” means the provisions referred to in article 4(1)(a) to (c) of 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“contributory allowance” and “income-related allowance” in relation to an award of old style ESA have the meaning given by section 1(7) of the 2007 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“income-based jobseeker’s allowance” has the same meaning as in the Jobseekers Act 1995;\n“income-related employment and support allowance” means an income-related allowance under Part 1 of the 2007 Act;\n“old style ESA” means an employment and support allowance under Part 1 of the 2007 Act as it has effect apart from the amendments made by Schedule 3, and Part 1 of Schedule 14, to the Act that remove references to an income-related allowance and references to an award of old style ESA shall be construed accordingly;\n“old style JSA” means a jobseeker’s allowance under the Jobseekers Act 1995 as it has effect apart from the amendments made by Part 1 of Schedule 14 to the Act that remove references to an income-based jobseeker’s allowance and references to an award of old style JSA shall be construed accordingly;\n“specified accommodation” has the same meaning as in the Transitional Regulations;\n“temporary accommodation” has the same meaning as in the Transitional Regulations;\n“the Transitional Regulations” means the Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2014;\n“two week run-on period” means the period referred to in regulation 8(2A) or 46(1)(a) of the Transitional Regulations or regulation 5(1) of the Universal Credit (Managed Migration Pilot and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2019.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 1(2) inserted (15.4.2026) by The Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 35) (Abolition of Benefits) (Amendment) Order 2026 (S.I. 2026/409), art. 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 1 in force at made date"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2007 c. 5."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2013/983 (C. 41). Article 4 was substituted by 2014/1452."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1992 c. 4."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1995 c. 18."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "S.I. 2014/1230."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "Inserted by S.I. 2018/65."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "Inserted by S.I. 2019/1152."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f8",
      "text": "S.I. 2019/1152."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/1148/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:10:08.757247+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "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."
}