List of Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 2012

Public General Acts

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| { { |Live Music Act 2012|public|2|08-03-2012|maintained=y|An Act to amend the Licensing Act 2003 with respect to the performance of live music entertainment; and for connected purposes.}} |- | { { |Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012|public|3|08-03-2012|maintained=y|An Act to require public authorities to have regard to economic, social and environmental well-being in connection with public services contracts; and for connected purposes.}} |- | { { |Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims (Amendment) Act 2012|public|4|08-03-2012|maintained=y|An Act to amend section 5 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004 to include serious harm to a child or vulnerable adult; to make consequential amendments to the Act; and for connected purposes.}} |- | { { |Welfare Reform Act 2012|public|5|08-03-2012|maintained=y|An Act to make provision for universal credit and personal independence payment; to make other provision about social security and tax credits; to make provision about the functions of the registration service, child support maintenance and the use of jobcentres; to establish the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission and otherwise amend the Child Poverty Act 2010; and for connected purposes.}} |- | { { |Consumer Insurance (Disclosure and Representations) Act 2012|public|6|08-03-2012|maintained=y|An Act to make provision about disclosure and representations in connection with consumer insurance contracts.}} |- | { { |Health and Social Care Act 2012|public|7|27-03-2012|maintained=y|An Act to establish and make provision about a National Health Service Commissioning Board and clinical commissioning groups and to make other provision about the National Health Service in England; to make provision about public health in the United Kingdom; to make provision about regulating health and adult social care services; to make provision about public involvement in health and social care matters, scrutiny of health matters by local authorities and co-operation between local authorities and commissioners of health care services; to make provision about regulating health and social care workers; to establish and make provision about a National Institute for Health and Care Excellence; to establish and make provision about a Health and Social Care Information Centre and to make other provision about information relating to health or social care matters; to abolish certain public bodies involved in health or social care; to make other provision about health care; and for connected purposes.}} |- | { { |Water Industry (Financial Assistance) Act 2012|public|8|01-05-2012|maintained=y|An Act to make provision for the giving of financial assistance for the purpose of securing the reduction of charges for the supply of water and the provision of sewerage services and in connection with the construction of, and the carrying out of works in respect of, water and sewerage infrastructure.}} |- | { { |Protection of Freedoms Act 2012|public|9|01-05-2012|maintained=y|An Act to provide for the destruction, retention, use and other regulation of certain evidential material; to impose consent and other requirements in relation to certain processing of biometric information relating to children; to provide for a code of practice about surveillance camera systems and for the appointment and role of the Surveillance Camera Commissioner; to provide for judicial approval in relation to certain authorisations and notices under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000; to provide for the repeal or rewriting of powers of entry and associated powers and for codes of practice and other safeguards in relation to such powers; to make provision about vehicles left on land; to amend the maximum detention period for terrorist suspects; to replace certain stop and search powers and to provide for a related code of practice; to make provision about the safeguarding of vulnerable groups and about criminal records including provision for the establishment of the Disclosure and Barring Service and the dissolution of the Independent Safeguarding Authority; to disregard convictions and cautions for certain abolished offences; to make provision about the release and publication of datasets held by public authorities and to make other provision about freedom of information and the Information Commissioner; to make provision about the trafficking of people for exploitation and about stalking; to repeal certain enactments; and for connected purposes.}} |- | { { |Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012|public|10|01-05-2012|maintained=y|An Act to make provision about legal aid; to make further provision about funding legal services; to make provision about costs and other amounts awarded in civil and crimin