Welfare Reform Act 2012 (c. 5)

SCHEDULES

Valid from 01/04/2013

SCHEDULE 3 U.K. Abolition of benefits: consequential amendments

Valid from 29/04/2013

Welfare Reform Act 2007 (c. 5) U.K.

22 U.K. The Welfare Reform Act 2007 is amended as follows.

23 U.K. In section 1 (employment and support allowance), in subsection (3)(d), at the end there is inserted “and”.

24 U.K. In section 2 (amount of contributory allowance), in subsection (1), for “In the case of a contributory allowance, the amount payable“ there is substituted “ The amount payable by way of an employment and support allowance ”.

25 (1) Section 27 (financial provisions) is amended as follows. U.K.

(2) In subsection (1), for the words from “so much of” to the end there is substituted “ any sums payable by way of employment and support allowance ”.

(3) In subsection (3), for “contributory” there is substituted “ employment and support ”.

26 U.K. In each of the following provisions, for “a contributory allowance” there is substituted “ an employment and support allowance ”

(a) section 1A(1), (3), (4), (5) and (6) (as inserted by section 51 of this Act);

(b) section 1B(1) (as inserted by section 52 of this Act);

(c) section 3(2)(d);

(d) section 18(4);

(e) section 20(2), (3)(a), (b) and (c), (4), (5)(a), (b) and (c), (6), (7)(a), (b) and (c);

(f) in Schedule 1, paragraphs 1(5)(d) and 3(2)(a);

(g) in Schedule 2, paragraphs 6 and 7(2)(d).