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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-act-2012-commencement-no-9-and-21-and-transitional-and-transitory-provisions-amendment-order-2017/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2017/483",
  "legislation_title": "The Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 9 and 21 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions (Amendment)) Order 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-act-2012-commencement-no-9-and-21-and-transitional-and-transitory-provisions-amendment-order-2017",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nArticle 2 of this Order amends 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 (S.I. 2013/983 (C. 41)), as it affects provisions of the Welfare Reform Act 2012 (c. 5) relating to the abolition of income-related employment and support allowance and income-based jobseeker’s allowance (“the amending provisions”).\nRegulation 39 of the Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1230), as inserted by the Social Security (Restrictions on Amounts for Children and Qualifying Young Persons) Amendment Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/376), provides that no claim for universal credit may be made during the “interim period” (as defined in that regulation) by a person who is responsible for more than two children or qualifying young persons.\nThe amendments made by article 2 cause the amending provisions not to have effect where, if a person made a claim for universal credit, the claim would be one to which regulation 39 applies. Therefore, a person may instead make a claim for an income-related employment and support allowance or an income-based jobseeker’s allowance.\nArticle 3 of this Order amends the Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 21 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/33 (C. 4)) to enable claims for housing benefit, income support or a tax credit to be made where a person is prevented from claiming universal credit by virtue of regulation 39.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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