The Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No.8 and Savings and Transitional Provisions) Order 2013

Appointed day for personal independence payment U.K.

7.—(1) The day appointed for the coming into force of the provisions of the 2012 Act listed in paragraph (2) is 8th April 2013 in relation to a person whose only or principal residence is, on the date on which that person makes a claim for personal independence payment, located in an area to which one of the postcodes listed in Schedule 3 to this Order corresponds.

(2) The provisions for the purposes of paragraph (1) are—

(a) section 77(1), (2) and, to the extent that it is not already in force, (3) (personal independence payment);

(b) section 78(1), (2), (5) and (6) (daily living component);

(c) section 79(1), (2), (5) and (6) (mobility component);

(d) section 82 (terminal illness);

(e) section 83(1), (2) and, to the extent that it is not already in force, (3) (persons of pensionable age);

(f) section 84 (no entitlement to daily living component where UK is not competent state);

(g) section 87 to the extent that it is not already in force (prisoners and detainees);

(h) section 88 (claims, awards and information);

(i) section 89 (report to Parliament);

(j) section 95 (interpretation of Part 4) to the extent that it is not already in force;

(k) paragraphs 1 to 3, 5 to 25 and 27 to 50 of Schedule 9 and section 91 in so far as it relates to those paragraphs to the extent that those paragraphs and that section are not already in force.