The Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 31 and Savings and Transitional Provisions and Commencement No. 21 and 23 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions (Amendment)) Order 2019

This Order brings into force paragraph 64 of Schedule 2 to the Welfare Reform Act 2012 (c. 5), which amends the State Pension Credit Act 2002 (c. 16) by inserting section 4(1A), which excludes mixed-age couples from entitlement to state pension credit. (For the definition of “mixed-age couple” see article 2(2)(a).) Section 4(1A) comes into force on 15th May 2019 (“the appointed day”, see article 3), except in the savings cases in article 4.