(1)This Act may be cited as the Social Security Act 1973.
(2)This Act shall come into force on such day as the Secretary of State may appoint by order; and—
(a)different days may be so appointed for, or for different purposes of, any one or more provisions of this Act (including, in the case of section 100 of this Act, the amendment or repeal of different enactments specified in Schedule 27 or 28 to this Act, or of different provisions of any enactment so specified); and
(b)an order under this subsection appointing a day for the coming into force of any provision (whether for all purposes or for particular purposes specified in the order) shall, if that provision contains a reference to “the appointed day”, specify the day (being a day not earlier than the making of the order nor later than the coming into force of the provision) which is to be the appointed day for any purposes for which the provision is brought into force.
(3)An order under subsection (2) above may make such transitional provision or savings as appear to the Secretary of State to be necessary or expedient in connection with provisions of this Act which are thereby brought (wholly or in part) into force, and may make such adaptations of those provisions or of any provisions of this Act then in force as appear to the Secretary of State to be necessary or expedient in consequence of the partly postponed or postponed operation of any provision of this Act (whether before, on or after the day appointed by the order).
(4)Any statutory instrument containing an order made under this section shall be laid before Parliament after being made.
Subordinate Legislation Made
P1S. 101: power exercised by S.Is. 1973/1249, 1973/1433, 1974/164, 1974/823 and 1975/124.