{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-act-2012-commencement-no8-and-savings-and-transitional-provisions-order-2013/article-7",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2013/358",
  "legislation_title": "The Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No.8 and Savings and Transitional Provisions) Order 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-act-2012-commencement-no8-and-savings-and-transitional-provisions-order-2013",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Appointed day for personal independence payment",
  "text": "(1) The day appointed for the coming into force of the provisions of the 2012 Act listed in paragraph (2) is 8th April 2013 in relation to a person whose only or principal residence is, on the date on which that person makes a claim for personal independence payment, located in an area to which one of the postcodes listed in Schedule 3 to this Order corresponds.\n(2) The provisions for the purposes of paragraph (1) are—\n(a) section 77(1), (2) and, to the extent that it is not already in force, (3) (personal independence payment);\n(b) section 78(1), (2), (5) and (6) (daily living component);\n(c) section 79(1), (2), (5) and (6) (mobility component);\n(d) section 82 (terminal illness);\n(e) section 83(1), (2) and, to the extent that it is not already in force, (3) (persons of pensionable age);\n(f) section 84 (no entitlement to daily living component where UK is not competent state);\n(g) section 87 to the extent that it is not already in force (prisoners and detainees);\n(h) section 88 (claims, awards and information);\n(i) section 89 (report to Parliament);\n(j) section 95 (interpretation of Part 4) to the extent that it is not already in force;\n(k) paragraphs 1 to 3, 5 to 25 and 27 to 50 of Schedule 9 and section 91 in so far as it relates to those paragraphs to the extent that those paragraphs and that section are not already in force.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/358/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:03:48.460891+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."
}