The Social Security Act 1986 (Commencement No. 5) Order 1987

• Citation: S.I. 1987/354
• Sections: 4

Section 1 Citation and interpretation

(1) This Order may be cited as the Social Security Act 1986 (Commencement No. 5) 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 day

Subject to article 3 below, the day appointed for the coming into force of the provisions of the Social Security Act 1986 which are specified in Schedule 1 to this Order is 6th April 1987.

Section 3 Exceptions

The appointment of 6th April 1987 for the coming into force of paragraph 67 of Schedule 10 (amendments to rates of allowances under Old Cases Act schemes) shall not have effect in relation to any person who has retired, or is treated as having retired, from regular employment, for the purposes of the Social Security Act 1975 , for so long as he continues to be treated as retired for those purposes.

Section 4 Amendment of the Social Security Act 1986 (Commencement No. 4) Order 1986

Part II (provisions coming into force on 6th April 1987) of the Schedule to the Social Security Act 1986 (Commencement No. 4) Order 1986 is amended by—

(a) the insertion, after the words “Section 38, to the extent that it is not already in force” of the words “except to the extent that it repeals so much of section 5(1) of the Social Security Act 1980 as amends section 12(1)(d) of the Social Security Act 1975”;

(b) the substitution, for the words “Schedule 8 and section 75 so far as it relates to it”, of the words “Schedule 8, except paragraph 7(1)(b), and section 75 so far as it relates to that Schedule”; and

(c) the omission of references to the provisions specified in Schedule 2 below, being provisions repealed by section 86(2) of and Schedule 11 to the Social Security Act 1986.