The Social Security Act 1986 (Commencement No. 4) Order 1986

• Citation: S.I. 1986/1959
• Sections: 4

Section 1 Citation and interpretation

(1) This order may be cited as the Social Security Act 1986 (Commencement No. 4) Order 1986.

(2) In this order unless the context otherwise requires references to sections and Schedules are references to sections of and Schedules to the Social Security Act 1986.

Section 2 Appointed days

Subject to the exceptional provisions in articles 3 and 4, the day appointed for the coming into force–

(a) of the provisions of the Social Security Act 1986 specified in Part I of the Schedule to this order is 15th March 1987;

(b) of the provisions of that Act specified in Part II of the Schedule to this order is 6th April 1987;

(c) of the provisions of that Act specified in Part III of the Schedule to this order is 7th April 1987.

Section 3 Saving for appeals from decisions of social security appeal tribunals recorded in writing before the appointed day

The bringing into operation of the repeal of section 15 of the Social Security Act 1980 (leave required for appeal from social security appeal tribunal to Commissioner) and the amendment made to it by paragraph 18 of Schedule 8 to the Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983 shall not have effect in relation to any decisions of social security appeal tribunals which are recorded in writing before the appointed day.

Section 4 Saving for the review of, or appeal from, determinations before the appointed day in relation to overpayments

(1) The bringing into operation of subsections (1), (2), (4) and (5) of section 53 (overpayments) and of the repeal, in whole or in part, of the enactments specified in paragraph (2) of this article (overpayments and set-off) and the provisions by which those enactments have been amended shall not have effect in relation to any review of, or appeal from, any determination, first made before 6th April 1987, of any question of repayment or recoverability under those enactments.

(2) The enactments specified for the purposes of paragraph (1) of this article are–

Section 8 of the Family Income Supplements Act 1970.

Sections 86 and 119 of the Social Security Act 1975.

Section 20 of the Supplementary Benefits Act 1976.