The Social Security Act 1986 (Commencement No. 8) Order 1987

• Citation: S.I. 1987/1853
• Sections: 3

Section 1 Citation and interpretation

(1) This Order may be cited as the Social Security Act 1986 (Commencement No. 8) Order 1987.

(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

(1) The day appointed for the coming into force of the provisions of the Social Security Act 1986 which are specified in Part I of the Schedule to this Order, so far as they relate to housing benefit, is–

(a) in a case where rent is payable at intervals of one month or any other interval which is not a week or a multiple thereof, 1st April 1988;

(b) in a case where payments by way of rates are not made together with payments of rent at weekly intervals or multiples thereof, 1st April 1988;

(c) in any other case, 4th April 1988.

(2) The day appointed for the coming into force of the provisions of the Social Security Act 1986 which are specified in Part II of the Schedule to this Order is 11th April 1988.

Section 3 Revocation

In the Social Security Act 1986 (Commencement No. 7) Order 1987 , article 2(2) (child benefit claims and payments), article 2(3) (abolition of industrial death benefit), and the commencement in the Schedule to that Order of the repeal in Schedule 11 of sections 67, 68 and 70 to 75 of, and Schedule 9 to, the Social Security Act 1975 and section 86(2) so far as it relates to the repeal of those sections and Schedule, are hereby revoked.