Statutory Instruments
2015 No. 83
Children And Young Persons
The Child Poverty Act 2010 (Extension of Publication Deadline) Order 2015
Made
23rd January 2015
Laid before Parliament
30th January 2015
Coming into force
6th March 2015
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) Order 2015.
(2) It comes into force on 6th March 2015.
Extension of publication deadline for 2015
2. The publication deadline, before which the Commission would otherwise be required by section 8B(1) of the Child Poverty Act 2010( 2 ) to publish its third annual report, is extended from 8th May 2015 to 18th December 2015.
David Laws
Minister of State
Department for Education
23rd January 2015
2010 c.9 . Section 8 is substituted, and sections 8A to 8C are inserted, by section 145 of, and 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.