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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2008/section-138",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2008/section-138.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2008/14",
  "legislation_title": "Health and Social Care Act 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2008",
  "path": "section/138",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "138",
  "heading": "General and supplementary",
  "text": "(1) The Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs are responsible for the payment and management of health in pregnancy grant.\n(2) In section 115 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (c. 33) (exclusion from entitlement to benefits), in subsection (1), after paragraph (h), insert—\n“(ha) health in pregnancy grant,”.\n(3) In subsections (5) and (6) of that section, before “child benefit” insert “ health in pregnancy grant or ”.\n(4) In section 677(1) of the Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003 (c. 1) (benefits wholly exempt from income tax), in Part 1 of Table B, at the appropriate place insert—\n“\nHealth in pregnancy grant\nSSCBA 1992\nSection 140A\nSSCB(NI)A 1992\nSection 136A\n”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 138 in force at 1.1.2009 by S.I. 2008/3137, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/14/section/138",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:12:00.738432+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."
}