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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-miscellaneous-amendments-and-transitional-and-savings-provision-regulations-2017/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2017/581",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment and Support Allowance (Miscellaneous Amendments and Transitional and Savings Provision) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-miscellaneous-amendments-and-transitional-and-savings-provision-regulations-2017",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "This Statutory Instrument has been printed to address defects in SI 2017/204 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.\nSocial Security\nMade 23rd April 2017\nLaid before Parliament 24th April 2017\nComing into force 23rd June 2017\nThe Secretary of State for Work and Pensions makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 15(4) and (5) and 34(1) of the Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016.\nIn accordance with section 173(5)(b) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992, this instrument contains only regulations made by virtue of, or consequential upon section 15 of the Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016 and is made before the end of the period of 6 months beginning with the coming into force of this section.\nIn accordance with section 176(1) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 the Secretary of State has consulted with organisations appearing to him to be representative of the authorities concerned.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2016 c.7."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1992 c.5."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/581/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."
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