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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-up-rating-modification-transitional-regulations-2008/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2008/3270",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment and Support Allowance (Up-rating Modification) (Transitional) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-up-rating-modification-transitional-regulations-2008",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Social Security\nMade 18th December 2008\nLaid before Parliament 29th December 2008\nComing into force 20th January 2009\nThe Secretary of State for Work and Pensions makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 24(1) and 25(2)(c), (3)(a) and (5) of, and paragraph 10 of Schedule 4 to, the Welfare Reform Act 2007.\nThis Instrument contains only regulations made by virtue of, or consequential upon, paragraph 10 of Schedule 4 to the Welfare Reform Act 2007 and is made before the end of the period of 6 months beginning with the coming into force of that paragraph.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2007 c. 5. Section 24(1) is cited for the meaning given to “prescribed” and “regulations”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See section 173(5) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c. 5). The requirement to refer regulations to the Social Security Advisory Committee does not apply where regulations are contained in a statutory instrument before the end of the period of 6 months beginning with the coming into force of the enactment under which the regulations were made or consequential upon a specified enactment and made before the end of the period of 6 months beginning with the coming into force of that enactment."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/3270/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."
}