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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disability-living-allowance-and-disability-working-allowance-act-1991/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1991/21",
  "legislation_title": "Disability Living Allowance and Disability Working Allowance Act 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disability-living-allowance-and-disability-working-allowance-act-1991",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to introduce as social security benefits disability living allowance and disability working allowance; and for connected purposes.\n[27th June 1991]\nBe it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E1",
      "text": "This Act does not extend to Northern Ireland except as provided by s.15(4)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/21/introduction",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}