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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-act-2012-commencement-no8-and-savings-and-transitional-provisions-order-2013/article-8",
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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/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Appointed day for council tax benefit",
  "text": "1st April 2013 is the day appointed for the coming into force of the following provisions of the 2012 Act—\n(a) section 33(1)(e) (abolition of benefits – council tax benefit);\n(b) paragraphs 5 (and paragraph 4 in so far as it relates to paragraph 5) and 15 to 18 of Schedule 3 (abolition of benefits: consequential amendments), and section 33(3) in so far as it relates to those paragraphs, in so far as they relate to the abolition of council tax benefit; and\n(c) the provisions of Part 1 of Schedule 14 (repeals – abolition of benefits superseded by universal credit) which are specified in Schedule 4 to this Order in so far as they relate to the abolition of council tax benefit.",
  "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/8",
    "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."
}