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The Welfare Reform Act (Relevant Enactment) (Wales) Order 2009

S.I. 2009/2687 · Made 5 October 2009

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Social Security, Wales

Made 5th October 2009

Laid before Parliament 12th October 2009

Coming into force 9th November 2009

The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 42(7) of the Welfare Reform Act 2007f1.

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

2007 c. 5.

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Relevant enactment
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

(1)

This Order may be cited as the Welfare Reform Act (Relevant Enactment) (Wales) Order 2009.

(2)

It comes into force on 9th November 2009.

2Relevant enactment

A relevant enactment for the purposes of section 42(1) of the Welfare Reform Act 2007 (information relating to certain benefits) is section 93(2) of the Local Government Act 2000f1 (grants for welfare services).

Signature

Yvette Cooper

Secretary of State

Department for Work and Pensions

5th October 2009

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

Information relating to certain benefits may be supplied under section 42(1) of the Welfare Reform Act 2007 to a person referred to in section 42(4) of that Act for purposes connected with the application of a grant paid under “a relevant enactment” towards expenditure incurred by the recipient of the grant in providing welfare services. This Order specifies section 93(2) of the Local Government Act 2000 (grants for welfare services) as a relevant enactment. Under section 93(2), the Welsh Ministers may pay grants to local authorities in Wales towards expenditure incurred in relation to welfare services.

This Order is supplemental to the Welfare Reform Act (Relevant Enactment) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/2162) which specifies section 31 of the Local Government Act 2003 (power to pay grant to a local authority) as a relevant enactment. That section empowers the Secretary of State and the Welsh Ministers to pay grants to local authorities in (respectively) England and Wales.

A full impact assessment has not been published for this instrument as it has no impact on the private or voluntary sectors.