{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-act-2012/section-31",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-act-2012/section-31.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2012/5",
  "legislation_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-act-2012",
  "path": "section/31",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": "Supplementary and consequential amendments",
  "text": "Schedule 2 contains supplementary and consequential amendments.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Pt. 1 modified by 1995 c. 18, Sch. 1 para. 2(3) (as inserted (29.4.2013) by The Universal Credit (Consequential, Supplementary, Incidental and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/630), regs. 1(2), 10(b))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 31 amendment to earlier affecting commencing S.I. 2019/37, art. 8 (30.3.2022) by The Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 34 and Commencement No. 9, 21, 23, 31 and 32 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions (Amendment)) Order 2022 (S.I. 2022/302), art. 5, Sch. para. 4(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "S. 31 amendment to earlier affecting provision S.I. 2019/37, art. 4 (with effect from 8.6.2024) by The Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 31 and Savings and Transitional Provisions) (Amendment) Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/604), arts. 1(3), 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 31 in force at 25.2.2013 for specified purposes by S.I. 2013/358, art. 6(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 31 in force at 25.2.2013 for specified purposes by S.I. 2013/358, art. 2(1), Sch. 1 paras. 20, 21"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "S. 31 in force at 25.2.2013 for specified purposes by S.I. 2013/358, art. 5(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I4",
      "text": "S. 31 in force at 25.2.2013 for specified purposes by S.I. 2013/358, art. 2(2), Sch. 2 para. 40"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I5",
      "text": "S. 31 in force at 25.2.2013 for specified purposes by S.I. 2013/358, art. 3(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I6",
      "text": "S. 31 in force at 1.4.2013 for specified purposes by S.I. 2013/358, art. 6(4)(d)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I7",
      "text": "S. 31 in force at 1.4.2013 for specified purposes by S.I. 2013/358, art. 6(4)(d)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I8",
      "text": "S. 31 in force at 29.4.2013 for specified purposes by S.I. 2013/983, art. 3(1)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I9",
      "text": "S. 31 in force at 29.4.2013 for specified purposes by S.I. 2013/358, art. 5(2)(5) (as amended (24.4.2013) by S.I. 2013/983, art. 23)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I10",
      "text": "S. 31 in force at 15.5.2019 for specified purposes by S.I. 2019/37, art. 3 (with arts. 4, 6-8) (as amended by S.I. 2019/935, art. 2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2012/5/section/31",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:09:01.675536+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."
}