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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-act-2012-commencement-no6-and-savings-provisions-order-2012/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2012/3090",
  "legislation_title": "The Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No.6 and Savings Provisions) Order 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-act-2012-commencement-no6-and-savings-provisions-order-2012",
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  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis is the sixth Commencement Order made under the Welfare Reform Act 2012 (“the Act”).\nArticle 2 brings into force various provisions of the Act which amend or repeal provisions of existing legislation relating to the social fund and the office of the social fund Commissioner.\nThe following provisions are brought into force on 1st April 2013, subject to savings provisions in article 3:\nsection 70(1), and (3) to (10), which provide for the ending of budgeting loans, community care grants and crisis loans;\nsection 73, which repeals sections 16 to 21 of the Welfare Reform Act 2009 (provisions relating to external provider social loans and community care grants), which were never brought into force;\namendments and repeals in Schedule 8 and Part 8 of Schedule 14 insofar as consequential upon these changes;\nThe following provisions are brought into force on 1st August 2013:\nsection 70(2), which abolishes the office of the social fund Commissioner;\namendments and repeals in Schedule 8 and Part 8 of Schedule 14 insofar as consequential upon this change.\nThe repeals commenced on 1st April 2013 by article 2(1) are subject to savings provisions in article 3. These ensure that:\napplications for budgeting loans can continue on and after 1st April 2013;\napplications for community care grants and crisis loans made before 1st April 2013 can continue to be determined after that date;\nthe process by which such decisions can be reviewed by an appropriate officer will also continue;\nthe process by which such decisions can be subject to a further review by a social fund inspector will continue in relation to budgeting loans, community care grants and crisis loans if the application was made before 1st April 2013, and will cease altogether (whether in relation to budgeting loans, community care grants or crisis loans) when the office of the social fund Commissioner ceases to exist on 1st August 2013.\nA full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as it has no impact on the private sector or civil society organisations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2009 c. 24."
    }
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  "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."
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