Appointed day for council tax benefitU.K.

8.  1st April 2013 is the day appointed for the coming into force of the following provisions of the 2012 Act—

(a)section 33(1)(e) (abolition of benefits – council tax benefit);

(b)paragraphs 5 (and paragraph 4 in so far as it relates to paragraph 5) and 15 to 18 of Schedule 3 (abolition of benefits: consequential amendments), and section 33(3) in so far as it relates to those paragraphs, in so far as they relate to the abolition of council tax benefit; and

(c)the provisions of Part 1 of Schedule 14 (repeals – abolition of benefits superseded by universal credit) which are specified in Schedule 4 to this Order in so far as they relate to the abolition of council tax benefit.