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The Welfare Benefits Up-rating Act 2013 (Commencement) Order 2013

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Statutory Instruments

2013 No. 2317 (C. 95)

Social Security

Tax Credits

Terms And Conditions Of Employment

The Welfare Benefits Up-rating Act 2013 (Commencement) Order 2013

Made

12th September 2013

The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions makes the following Order in exercise of the power conferred by section 3(4) of the Welfare Benefits Up-rating Act 2013(1).

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1.  This Order may be cited as the Welfare Benefits Up-rating Act 2013 (Commencement) Order 2013.

Appointed day

2.  1st October 2013 is the day appointed for the coming into force of the following provisions of the Welfare Benefits Up-rating Act 2013—

(a)section 1 (up-rating of certain social security benefits for tax years 2014-15 and 2015-16);

(b)section 2 (up-rating of tax credits for tax years 2014-15 and 2015-16);

(c)the Schedule (meaning of the “relevant sums” and the “relevant amounts”).

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

Steve Webb

Minister of State,

Department for Work and Pensions

12th September 2013

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order brings into force those provisions of the Welfare Benefits Up-rating Act 2013 (c.16) that are not already in force.

The Order brings into force on 1st October 2013 sections 1 and 2 of, and the Schedule to, that Act.

Section 1 provides for the up-rating by order of certain social security benefits and payments by 1 per cent for the tax years 2014-15 and 2015-16.

Section 2 provides for the up-rating by order of certain elements of tax credits by 1 per cent for those tax years.

The Schedule sets out the “relevant sums” for the purposes of section 1 and the “relevant amounts” for the purposes of section 2.

An impact assessment has not been carried out in relation to this Order as it does not have any impact on business or civil society organisations.

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