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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/guaranteed-minimum-pensions-increase-order-1993/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/guaranteed-minimum-pensions-increase-order-1993/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/279",
  "legislation_title": "The Guaranteed Minimum Pensions Increase Order 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/guaranteed-minimum-pensions-increase-order-1993",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "PENSIONS\nMade 17th February 1993\nComing into force 6th April 1993\nWhereas the Secretary of State has reviewed the general level of prices obtaining in Great Britain for the period of 12 months commencing on 1st October 1991;\nAnd whereas it appears to him that the general level of prices was greater by 3.6 per cent. at the end of that period than it was at the beginning of that period;\nAnd whereas a draft of the following Order was laid before Parliament and approved by a resolution of each House;\nNow, therefore, the Secretary of State for Social Security, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 166(1) of the Social Security Act 1975 and section 37A of the Social Security Pensions Act 1975, hereby makes the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1975 c. 14. Section 166(1) applies to certain powers to make orders and regulations under the Social Security Pensions Act 1975 by virtue of section 66(2) of that Act. See the Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1992 (c. 6) Schedule 3, paragraph 10."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1975 c. 60. Section 37A was inserted by section 9(7) of the Social Security Act 1986 (c. 50)."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/279/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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