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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disability-working-allowance-and-family-credit-general-amendment-regulations-1996/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/3137",
  "legislation_title": "The Disability Working Allowance and Family Credit (General) Amendment Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disability-working-allowance-and-family-credit-general-amendment-regulations-1996",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "SOCIAL SECURITY\nMade 11th December 1996\nLaid before Parliament 17th December 1996\nComing into force 7th January 1997\nThe Secretary of State for Social Security in exercise of powers conferred on him by sections 123(1)(b) and (c), 128(5), 129(8), 136(3) and (4), 137(1) and 175(1), (3) and (4) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after agreement by the Social Security Advisory Committee that proposals in respect of these Regulations should not be referred to it, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1992 c. 4; section 137(1) is an interpretation provision and is cited because of the meaning ascribed to the word “prescribed”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See the Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c. 5), section 173(1)(b); section 173(7) defines “regulations”."
    }
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/3137/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."
}