{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-act-2012/section-55",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-act-2012/section-55.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2012/5",
  "legislation_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-act-2012",
  "path": "section/55",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "55",
  "heading": "Work experience etc",
  "text": "In section 13 of the Welfare Reform Act 2007 (work-related activity), after subsection (7) there is inserted—\n“(8) The reference to activity in subsection (7) includes work experience or a work placement.”",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 55 repealed (29.4.2013 for specified purposes and subsequently on the days on which and for the purposes for which \"the amending provisions\" are brought into force by secondary legislation) by Welfare Reform Act 2012 (c. 5), s. 150(3), Sch. 14 Pt. 5; S.I. 2013/983, art. 7(1)(f) (with art. 7(2)) (as amended: (1.7.2013) by S.I. 2013/1511, art. 6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 55 in force at 3.12.2012 by S.I. 2012/2530, art. 2(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2012/5/section/55",
    "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."
}