Statutory Instruments
2013 No. 1980
Children And Young Persons
The Child Poverty Act 2010 (Extension of Publication Deadline) (No. 2) Order 2013
Made
6th August 2013
Laid before Parliament
13th August 2013
Coming into force
10th September 2013
Following a request by the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission, the Minister of State for Schools makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 8B(5) of the Child Poverty Act 2010( 1 ).
Citation and commencement
1. —(1) This Order may be cited as the Child Poverty Act 2010 (Extension of Publication Deadline) (No.2) Order 2013.
(2) It comes into force on 10th September 2013.
Extension of publication deadline for 2013
2. The publication deadline, before which the Commission would otherwise be required by section 8B(1) and (5) of the Child Poverty Act 2010( 2 ) to publish its first annual report, is extended from 26th September 2013 to 22nd October 2013.
Extension of publication deadline for 2014
3. The publication deadline, before which the Commission would otherwise be required by section 8B(1) of the Child Poverty Act 2010 to publish its second annual report, is extended from 8th May 2014 to 22nd October 2014.
David Laws
Minister of State
Department for Education
6th August 2013
2010 c.9 . Section 8 is substituted, and sections 8A to 8C inserted, by paragraph 2 of Schedule 13 to the Welfare Reform Act 2012 (c.5) (“the 2012 Act”).
Section 8B(1) requires the Commission to publish a report before each anniversary of the coming into force of section 8B. Section 8B came into force on 8th May 2012 by virtue of section 150(2)(j) of the 2012 Act. Section 8B(5) enables the publication deadline to be extended by Order. The publication deadline for the Commission’s first annual report was extended from 8th May 2012 to 26th September 2013 by S.I. 2013/411 . “The Commission” is defined in section 8(1) of the Child Poverty Act 2010.