Commentary on provisions of Act Section 7: Other amendments to the Child Poverty Act 2010
This section amends the Child Poverty Act 2010 (to be cited as the Life Chances Act 2010) to remove the measures, targets, duties and other provisions, including:
the statutory targets and measures (sections 1-7, 15, 17 and schedule 2);
the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission (sections 8 to 8C);
the duties placed on the Secretary of State to consult on, review, lay and publish a triennial child poverty strategy (sections 9 and 10);
the duty placed on Scottish Ministers to consult on, review, lay and publish a triennial child poverty strategy (section 11 and section 13 as it relates to Scottish Ministers and the Scottish strategy); and
the duties placed on local authorities (sections 19 to 25).
	This section makes additional amendments to section 12 of the Child Poverty Act in order to remove references to the targets (which are repealed by this Act) and to maintain as now the period during which the relevant Northern Ireland department is required to produce its strategy.
	The section replaces references to "the target year" with specific dates as a consequence of targets being removed by this Act.
	The section retains definitions of child, parent and parental responsibility in respect of the on-going duties of the relevant Northern Ireland department to publish its strategy.
	The section updates the ‘general interpretation’ section of the Child Poverty Act to explain relevant terms.