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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-sanctions-amendment-regulations-2012/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2012/2756",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment and Support Allowance (Sanctions) (Amendment) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-sanctions-amendment-regulations-2012",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Social Security\nMade 2nd November 2012\nLaid before Parliament 5th November 2012\nComing into force 3rd December 2012\nThe Secretary of State for Work and Pensions makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 12(2), (3) and (4), 13(2), (6) and (4), 16, 16A and 25(2), (3) and (5) of the Welfare Reform Act 2007 and sections 10(6) and 79(4) and (6) of the Social Security Act 1998 after agreement by the Social Security Advisory Committee that proposals in respect of these Regulations should not be referred to it.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 16A was inserted by section 56 of the Welfare Reform Act 2012 (c.5)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2007 c.5."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1998 c.14."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "See section 173(1)(b) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c.5)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/2756/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."
}