PART 1General

Citation and commencement1

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Payments on Account of Benefit) Regulations 2013.

2

They come into force—

a

for the purposes of this Part and Part 2 (except the provisions specified in paragraph (3)) and Part 4, on 1st April 2013;

b

for all other purposes, on 29th April 2013.

3

The specified provisions are—

a

in regulation 2(1)

i

the definitions of “the UC etc.Claims and Payments Regulations”, “the Universal Credit Regulations” and “universal credit”;

ii

paragraph (a) of the definition of “couple”;

b

regulation 2(2) and (3)(a);

c

regulation 3(1)(a) and (2)(a)(i) and (b)(i);

d

regulation 5(3)(a);

e

regulation 7(2); and

f

regulation 8(2).