Statutory Instrument 2002 No. 2256 (C. 73)

      The Employment Act 2002 (Commencement No. 2) Order 2002


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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS


2002 No. 2256 (C. 73)

SOCIAL SECURITY

The Employment Act 2002 (Commencement No. 2) Order 2002

  Made 30th August 2002 

The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 55(2) of the Employment Act 2002[1] and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and interpretation
     1.  - (1) This Order may be cited as the Employment Act 2002 (Commencement No. 2) Order 2002.

    (2) In this Order, any reference to a numbered section or Schedule is a reference to the section or Schedule bearing that number in the Employment Act 2002.

Appointed day
    
2. The day appointed for the coming into force of - 

shall be 9th September 2002.



Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.


Malcolm Wicks
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Work and Pensions

30th August 2002



SCHEDULE
Article 2(c)


REPEALS SPECIFIED IN PART (1) OF SCHEDULE 8 WHICH ARE COMMENCED BY THIS ORDER


Act Provision
Social Security Administration Act 1992[3] In section 122(2), the word "or" before paragraph (b).
Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992[4] In section 116(2), the word "or" before paragraph (b).
Social Security Administration (Fraud) Act 1997[5] In Schedule 1, paragraph 12(3).
Social Security Act 1998[6] Section 3(3).



EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)


This Order brings into force further provisions of the Employment Act 2002 (c. 22).

Section 50 and Schedule 6 (use of information for, or relating to, employment and training) as well as other provisions which are consequential on the coming into force of that section and Schedule, are brought fully into force on 9th September 2002. These provisions allow the Department for Work and Pensions to have supplied to them, and to use, information relating to a person's employment and training. They also allow the Department to have access to tax information held by the Inland Revenue and Customs and Excise for the purpose of preventing fraud, both by those contracted[
a] to deliver employment and training programmes and by participants in those programmes.

NOTE AS TO EARLIER COMMENCEMENT ORDER
(This note is not part of the Order)

Paragraph 50 of Schedule 7 to the Employment Act 2002 and Section 53 of that Act so far as it relates to that paragraph, was brought into force on 31st July 2002 by S.I.2002/1989. (C.62)[b]


Notes:

[1] 2002 c. 22.back

[2] S.I. 1997/1182 (N.I. 11).back

[3] 1992 c. 5.back

[4] 1992 c. 8.back

[5] 1997 c. 47.back

[6] 1998 c. 14.back



[a] Amended by Correction Slip. Page 2, Explanatory Note, the beginning of the penultimate line should read: "fraud, both by those contracted"; back

[b] After the Explanatory Note insert:
"NOTE AS TO EARLIER COMMENCEMENT ORDER
(This note is not part of the Order)
Paragraph 50 of Schedule 7 to the Employment Act 2002 and Section 53 of that Act so far as it relates to that paragraph, was brought into force on 31st July 2002 by S.I.2002/1989. (C.62)"
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