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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-social-security-penalty-as-alternative-to-prosecution-maximum-amount-order-2015/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2015/9780111124246",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Penalty as Alternative to Prosecution) (Maximum Amount) Order 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-social-security-penalty-as-alternative-to-prosecution-maximum-amount-order-2015",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Draft Order laid before Parliament under section 190(1) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992, for approval by resolution of each House of Parliament.\nSocial Security\nMade ***\nComing into force 1st April 2015\nThe Secretary of State for Work and Pensions makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 115A(3B)(b) and 189(4) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992.\nA draft of this order has been laid before Parliament in accordance with section 190(1) of that Act, and approved by resolution of each House of Parliament.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1992 c.5. Section 115A is inserted by section 15 of the Social Security Administration (Fraud) Act 1997 (c.47). Subsection (3) is substituted and subsections (3A) and (3B) inserted by section 114(1) of the Welfare Reform Act 2012 (c.5) (“the 2012 Act”). Section 189(4) is amended by paragraph 109(a) and (c) of Schedule 7, and Schedule 8, to the 1998 Act, and by S.I. 2013/252."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 190(1)(zza) is inserted by section 114(2) of the 2012 Act."
    }
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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."
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