Appointed days2

1

The day appointed for the coming into operation of sections 32 to 34 (housing benefit for persons taking up employment, supplemental and interpretation)—

a

for the purpose only of authorising the making of regulations, is 1st July 2008; and

b

for all other purposes, is 6th October 2008.

2

The day appointed for the coming into operation of—

a

sections 25(1) and (2), 26(1) and 28(2) (regulations, Assembly control and power to make consequential amendments), paragraphs 4(1), (2) and (28) and 10(1), (3) and (6) of Schedule 3 (consequential amendments relating to Part 1) and paragraphs 1(1), 2 and 3(b) to (d) of Schedule 4 (transition relating to Part 1) and sections 28(1) and 29 in so far as relating to those paragraphs—

i

for the purpose only of authorising the making of regulations, is 1st July 2008, and

ii

for all other purposes, is 27th July 2008;

b

paragraph 10(2) of Schedule 3 and paragraphs 1(2) and 11 of Schedule 4 and sections 28(1) and 29 in so far as relating to those paragraphs, is 27th July 2008;

c

the provisions specified in Part 1 of the Schedule—

i

for the purpose only of authorising the making of regulations, is 1st July 2008, and

ii

for all other purposes, is 27th October 2008; and

d

the provisions specified in Part 2 of the Schedule, is 27th October 2008.