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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-social-security-residence-and-presence-requirements-miscellaneous-amendment-scotland-regulations-2025/introduction",
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  "legislation": "sdsi/2025/9780111063491",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Residence and Presence Requirements) (Miscellaneous Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-social-security-residence-and-presence-requirements-miscellaneous-amendment-scotland-regulations-2025",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Draft Regulations laid before the Scottish Parliament under section 96(2) of the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018, for approval by resolution of the Scottish Parliament.\nSocial Security\nMade 2025\nComing into force 2025\nThe Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 13 of the Social Security Act 1988, section 175(3) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 and sections 28(2), 31(2) and 32(2) of the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (“the 2018 Act”) and all other powers enabling them to do so.\nIn accordance with section 13(2) of the Social Security Act 1988, the Scottish Ministers have consulted the Welsh Ministers.\nIn accordance with section 96(2) of the 2018 Act, a draft of these Regulations has been laid before and approved by resolution of the Scottish Parliament.\nIn accordance with section 97(2) of the 2018 Act, the Scottish Ministers have informed the Scottish Commission on Social Security of their proposals, notified the Scottish Parliament that they have done so and made their proposals publicly available by such means as they consider appropriate.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1988 c. 7. Section 13 was substituted by section 185(1) of the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (c. 43) and amended by section 27(5) of the Scotland Act 2016 (c. 11) (“the 2016 Act”). Sections 13 and 15A of the 1988 Act read together with section 175 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (c. 4) provide for different provision to be made for different cases or classes of cases. The functions of the Secretary of State, in so far as within devolved competence, were transferred to the Scottish Minsters by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46) as read with sections 27 and 32 of the 2016 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1992 c. 4."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "2018 asp 9. The powers to make these Regulations are exercised together by virtue of section 33(2) of the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 10) and the Regulations are subject to the affirmative procedure by virtue of section 33(3) of that Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Functions conferred or imposed on the National Assembly for Wales immediately before the first appointment of a First Minister under section 46 of the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32) by an enactment contained in an Act were transferred to the Welsh Ministers by paragraph 30(2)(c) of schedule 11 of that Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "Section 96(2) was amended by section 26(2)(a) of the Social Security (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 2025 (asp 2)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "Section 97(2) was relevantly amended by section 20(2)(a) and section 20(2)(c) of the Social Security (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 2025 (asp 2)."
    }
  ],
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:28:30.193695+00:00"
  },
  "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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