Part 1 Establishment of Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission

SCHEDULE 13 Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission

Section 145

Part 1 Establishment of Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission

1

The Child Poverty Act 2010 is amended as follows.

2

For section 8 (and the preceding italic heading) there is substituted—

“Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission
8 Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission

(1)     There is to be a body called the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission (in this Act referred to as “the Commissionâ€).

(2)     The Commission's functions are those conferred on it by or under this Act.

(3)     Schedule 1 contains further provision about the Commission.

(4)     A Minister of the Crown may by order provide for the Commission to cease to exist on a day—

(a)     specified in or determined in accordance with the order, and

(b)     falling after the target year.

(5)     An order under subsection (4) may contain such transitional or consequential provision as the Minister of the Crown considers necessary or expedient in connection with the abolition of the Commission.

(6)     That provision may include provision amending, repealing or revoking—

(a)     the provisions of this Act so far as relating to the Commission;

(b)     any provision of

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