The Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No.6 and Savings Provisions) Order 2012

Savings provisions

3.—(1) Notwithstanding any repeal made by section 70(1) of the Act, or Part 8 of Schedule 14 to the Act, and except as provided in paragraph (3), the provisions listed in paragraph (2) continue to have effect on and after 1st April 2013 in so far as they relate to—

(a)budgeting loans;

(b)community care grants and crisis loans in cases where the application for the community care grant or crisis loan was made before 1st April 2013.

(2) The provisions are—

(a)the following provisions of the Contributions and Benefits Act—

(i)in section 138(1), paragraph (b)(1) and the “and” preceding it;

(ii)section 138(3) and (5)(2);

(iii)sections 139 and 140;

(b)sections 12 and 168 of the Administration Act(3);

(c)the following provisions of the 1998 Act(4)—

(i)section 8(1)(b);

(ii)in section 9(1), the words “Subject to section 36(3) below”;

(iii)in section 10(1), the words “and section 36(3)”;

(iv)section 36;

(v)section 38;

(d)the Social Fund (Applications and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2008(5);

(e)the Social Fund (Application for Review) Regulations 1988(6).

(3) The provisions listed in paragraph (4) of this article—

(a)continue to have effect on and after 1st April 2013 in relation to budgeting loans, community care grants or crisis loans only in relation to cases where the application for a budgeting loan, community care grant or crisis loan was made before 1st April 2013; and

(b)cease to have effect (whether in relation to budgeting loans, community care grants or crisis loans) after the end of 31st July 2013.

(4) The provisions are—

(a)section 38(3) to (5) of the 1998 Act, and section 38(6) to (13)(7) in so far as relevant to review by a social fund inspector under section 38(3) or (5) of that Act;

(b)regulation 2(1)(b) of the Social Fund (Application for Review) Regulations 1988, and the remainder of regulation 2 in so far as applying to review by a social fund inspector under regulation 2(1)(b) of those Regulations.