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The Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 (Commencement No. 7) Order 2017

S.R. 2017/118 · Made 26 June 2017

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Social Security

Made 26th June 2017

The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by article 2(2) of the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015f1.

Those powers are exercisable by the Secretary of State by virtue of article 4(1)(a) of that Order.

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

S.I. 2015/2006 (N.I. 1).

Contents

  1. 1Citation
  2. 2Provision coming into force
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation

This Order may be cited as the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 (Commencement No. 7) Order 2017.

2Provision coming into force

Paragraph 44 of Schedule 2 (the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000) to the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 comes into force on 10th July 2017.

Signature

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

Caroline Dinenage

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department for Work and Pensions

26th June 2017

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order brings into force a provision of the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 relating to the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000 enabling discretionary housing payments in respect of persons entitled to universal credit.