Appointed day for council tax benefit8

1st April 2013 is the day appointed for the coming into force of the following provisions of the 2012 Act—

a

section 33(1)(e) (abolition of benefits – council tax benefit);

b

paragraphs 5 (and paragraph 4 in so far as it relates to paragraph 5) and 15 to 18 of Schedule 3 (abolition of benefits: consequential amendments), and section 33(3) in so far as it relates to those paragraphs, in so far as they relate to the abolition of council tax benefit; and

c

the provisions of Part 1 of Schedule 14 (repeals – abolition of benefits superseded by universal credit) which are specified in Schedule 4 to this Order in so far as they relate to the abolition of council tax benefit.