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Schedule 2Abolition of income support: consequential amendments

Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 (c. 43)

1In sections 89(2A) and 90(3A) of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 (transfer of fine order), for “income support” substitute “jobseeker’s allowance etc”.

Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c. 53)

2In section 24 of the Criminal Justice Act 1991 (recovery of fines etc. by deductions from income support), in the title, for “income support” substitute “jobseeker’s allowance etc”.

Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c. 5)

3In section 74 of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 (income support and other payments), in the title, for “Income support” substitute “Income-based jobseeker’s allowance”.

Local Government Finance Act 1992 (c. 14)

4In paragraph 12(1) of Schedule 4 to the Local Government Finance Act 1992 (enforcement: relationship between remedies)—

(a)in paragraph (b), for “income support” substitute “jobseeker’s allowance payable to any person whose claim to the allowance is based on meeting condition B in section 1A of the Jobseekers Act 1995”, and

(b)in paragraph (d), for “income support” substitute “jobseeker’s allowance payable as mentioned in paragraph (b)”.

Jobseekers Act 1995 (c. 18)

5The Jobseekers Act 1995 is amended as follows.

6In section 2(1) (the contribution-based conditions), at the end of paragraph (b) insert “and”.

7In section 3A(1)(c) (the conditions for claims by joint-claim couples), for “any such family” substitute “a family of which the couple are members”.

Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (c. 33)

8In section 97(5) of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (persons for whom support may be provided: supplemental), for paragraph (a) (together with the “or” at the end of it) substitute—

(a)to such portion of the applicable amount in respect of an income-based jobseeker’s allowance provided under section 4 of the Jobseekers Act 1995, or.

Social Security Fraud Act 2001 (c. 11)

9The Social Security Fraud Act 2001 is amended as follows.

10In section 6B(5) (loss of benefit in case of conviction, penalty or caution for benefit offence), which is inserted by section 24 of this Act, for “subsections (6)” substitute “subsections (7)”.

11In section 7(2) (loss of benefit for commission of benefit offences), for “subsections (3)” substitute “subsections (4)”.

Courts Act 2003 (c. 39)

12The Courts Act 2003 is amended as follows.

13In paragraph 10(a) of Schedule 5 (applications for benefit deductions), for “income support” substitute “jobseeker’s allowance”.

14In paragraph 2(1)(a)(v) of Schedule 6 (discharge of fines by unpaid work), for “income support” substitute “jobseeker’s allowance”.

Child Trust Funds Act 2004 (c. 6)

15In section 9(8)(a) of the Child Trust Funds Act 2004 (supplementary contribution by HMRC), for “income support, or income-based jobseeker’s allowance,” substitute “income-based jobseeker’s allowance”.

Age-Related Payments Act 2004 (c. 10)

16In section 2(3)(b) of the Age-Related Payments Act 2004 (entitlement: basic cases), at the end of sub-paragraph (i) insert “or”.

Welfare Reform Act 2007 (c. 5)

17In paragraph 11 of Schedule 4 to the Welfare Reform Act 2007 (transition relating to Part 1 of Act), after the definition of “incapacity benefit” insert—