Appointed days2.

(1)

The day appointed for the coming into operation of—

(a)

section 38(1) of the Act (social security information);

(b)

sections 48 and 49 of the Act (disability living allowance: age conditions);

(c)

section 54 of the Act (power to stop payment of allowances to care home residents) for the purpose only of authorising the making of regulations;

(d)

paragraph 1(2) of Schedule 7 to the Act (minor and consequential amendments relating to Part 4) and section 56 of the Act in so far as it relates to that paragraph; and

(e)

in Schedule 8 to the Act the repeals of section 72(6) and words in section 73(5) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 19922 and section 58 of the Act in so far as it relates to those repeals,

is 8th October 2007.

(2)

The day appointed for the coming into operation of section 54 of the Act, in so far as not already in operation, is 29th October 2007.