The Social Security Act 1985 (Commencement No. 2) Order 1985

Statutory Instruments

1985 No. 1364 (c.30)

SOCIAL SECURITY

The Social Security Act 1985 (Commencement No. 2) Order 1985

Made

2nd September 1985

The Secretary of State for Social Services, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 32(1) of the Social Security Act 1985, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following order:—

Citation

1.  This order may be cited as the Social Security Act 1985 (Commencement No. 2) Order 1985.

Appointed days

2.  The day appointed for the coming into force of each provision of the Social Security Act 1985 which is specified in column (1) of the Schedule to this order is the day specified in relation to that provision in column (3) of that Schedule.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Services.

Tony Newton

Minister of State

Department of Health and Social Security

2nd September 1985

Article 2

SCHEDULE

Provision of the Social Security Act 1985	Subject Matter	Date of Coming into Force
(1)	(2)	(3)
Section 1	Short service benefit for members of schemes whose employment is terminated before age of 26	1st January 1986
Section 2 and Schedule 1	Transfer and revaluation	1st January 1986
Section 3 and Schedule 2, so far as they relate to the insertion into the Social Security Pensions Act 1975 of the following sections— Section 56A; Section 56E(1) (except paragraph (c)) and (2) to (8); Section 56L(1) (except the words “or (c)” in paragraph (a), and paragraph (b)), (2) to (4), (5)(a), (c) (except so far as it applies to the registrar) and (d), and (6) to (8)	Information about schemes	1st January 1986
Part II of Schedule 3 and section 4 so far as it relates to that Part	Guaranteed minimum pensions	1st January 1986
Section 5	Managers of schemes	1st January 1986
Section 6(1) to (4)	Miscellaneous amendments relating to protection of pensions	1st January 1986
Section 14	Special hardship allowance	4th November 1985
Section 22(1)(a)	Housing benefits-subsidy	6th October 1985
The following paragraphs of Schedule 5 and section 29(1) so far as it relates to those paragraphs—	Minor and consequential amendments
Paragraphs 26, 29, 33 and 40		6th October 1985
Paragraphs 1 to 4, 18 to 21, 23, 24, 27, 28 and 30 to 32		1st January 1986
Paragraphs 25 and 38		6th April 1986
The following repeals in Schedule 6 and section 29(2) so far as it relates to those repeals—	Repeals
The repeal of paragraph 6(1)(a) of Schedule 16 to the Social Security Act 1973		1st January 1986
The repeals in sections 26(2), 34(4) and 66, and of section 41A(4)(i), of the Social Security Pensions Act 1975		1st January 1986
The repeals of section 41B(4), and in section 59(5)(b), of the Social Security Pensions Act 1975		6th October 1985
The repeal in section 5(1) of the Social Security (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1977		16th September 1985
The repeal of section 22(9) to (11) of the Social Security (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1977		1st January 1986
The repeals of section 3(6) and in section 3(7) of the Social Security Act 1980		1st January 1986

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order brings into operation, on various dates in 1985 and 1986, all those provisions of the Social Security Act 1985 which are not brought into operation either by section 32 of the Act itself or by the Social Security Act 1985 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1985 (S.I. 1985/1125), except the provisions relating to the registration of occupational pension schemes.