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  "legislation": "uksi/1984/1302",
  "legislation_title": "The Health and Social Security Act 1984 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1984",
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  "text": "Provision of the Act\nSubject Matter\nDate of Coming into Force\n(1)\n(2)\n(3)\nSection 1(1)\nSupply etc of optical appliances\n1st October 1984\nSection 1(2)\nRules as to optical practice\n16th August 1984\nSection 1(4) and (5) (except paragraph (a))\nChoice of optician to supply appliances\n1st April 1985\nSection 2\nFitting etc of contact lenses\n1st April 1985\nSections 3 and 4 and Schedule 2\nUse of titles and disciplinary provisions\n1st November 1984\nSection 5(1) and (5) to (8), paragraphs 1, 7(b)(ii) and (c) and 12 of Schedule 3 and section 5(4) so far as it relates to those paragraphs\nFamily Practitioner Committees\n26th September 1984\nSection 5(2) and (3), paragraphs 2 to 6, 7(a) and (b)(i), 8 to 11 and 13 to 17 of Schedule 3 and section 5(4) so far as it relates to those paragraphs\n1st April 1985\nIn section 6—\nFinance in National Health Service\nsubsections (1) and (3)\n26th September 1984\nsubsection (2)\n1st April 1985\nSection 12\nPension increase in respect of husbands\n26th November 1984\nParagraphs 1, 2(b), 3(b) and (c), 4 and 7 of Schedule 5, and section 13 so far as it relates to those paragraphs\nDependent children\n26th November 1984\nParagraphs 5 and 6 of Schedule 5, and section 13 so far as it relates to those paragraphs\n28th November 1984\nParagraphs 2(a), 3(a) and 8 of Schedule 5, and section 13 so far as it relates to those paragraphs\n29th November 1984\nSection 14\nEarnings to include occupational pensions for purposes of benefits\n26th November 1984\nSection 17\nLate paid Class 2 contributions\n6th April 1985\nSection 18(3)\nClass 3 contributions\n6th April 1985\nSection 20 and Schedule 6\nProtection of pensions\n1st January 1985\nParagraphs 1 and 2 of Schedule 7, and section 21 so far as it relates to those paragraphs\nMiscellaneous social security amendments\n26th November 1984\nParagraph 3 of Schedule 7, and section 21 so far as it relates to that paragraph\n6th April 1985\nThe following repeals in Schedule 8, and section 24 so far as it relates to those repeals—\nRepeals\nthe repeal of words in section 13(3) of the Opticians Act 1958\n1st November 1984\nthe repeal of words in Schedule 1 to the Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1971\n1st April 1985\nthe repeal of words in sections 12(b), 15(1) and (2), 39(c) and 98(2) of, and paragraphs 9(1) to (3) and 10 of Schedule 5 to, the National Health Service Act 1977\n1st April 1985\nthe repeal of words in sections 45(2) and (3) and 97(1)(a) and (c) and (2) of that Act\n26th September 1984\nthe repeal of words in section 26(2)(c) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978\n1st April 1985\nthe repeal of words in section 85(1) of that Act\n26th September 1984\nthe repeals relating to sections 1(6) and 2 of, and paragraphs 35, 37, 56, 57, 69, 77(b), 82(2) and (3), 87 and 89 to 98 of Schedule 1 to, the Health Services Act 1980\n1st April 1985\nthe repeal of section 18 of, and paragraphs 30, 79, 88 and 99 of Schedule 1 to, that Act\n26th September 1984\nthe repeal of words in section 12(1)(d) of, section 41(2)(d) and (3) of, and an entry in paragraph 3 of Part IV of Schedule 4 to, the Social Security Act 1975\n26th November 1984\nthe repeal of section 57(2) of, and entries in paragraph 1(a) and (c) of Part IV of Schedule 4 to, that Act\n29th November 1984\nthe repeal of words in section 4(1) of the Social Security Pensions Act 1975\n6th April 1985\nthe repeal of paragraph 25 of Schedule 4 to the Child Benefit Act 1975\n28th November 1984\nthe repeal of words in section 22(2) of the Social Security (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1977\n29th November 1984\nthe repeal of section 3(5) of the Social Security Act 1980\n26th September 1984\nthe repeal of paragraph 18(4) of Schedule 4 to the Social Security and Housing Benefits Act 1982\n29th November 1984",
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  "version": "current",
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