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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-recovery-of-overpayments-regulations-1997/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/2435",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit (Recovery of Overpayments) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-recovery-of-overpayments-regulations-1997",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "SOCIAL SECURITY\nMade 8th October 1997\nLaid before Parliament 13th October 1997\nComing into force 3rd November 1997\nThe Secretary of State for Social Security, in exercise of powers conferred on her by sections 5(1)(i), 63(1) and (2), 75(3) to (7), 189(4) to (6) and 191 of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 and of all other powers enabling her in that behalf by this instrument, which contains only regulations made by virtue of or consequential upon section 16 of the Social Security Administration (Fraud) Act 1997 and is made before the end of the period of six months from the coming into force of that section and after consultation with organisations appearing to her to be representative of the authorities concerned, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1992 c. 5; subsections (5) to (7) were added to section 75 by section 16 of the Social Security Administration (Fraud) Act 1997 (c. 47); section 191 is an interpretation provision and is cited because of the meaning there ascribed to the word “prescribe”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1997 c. 47; see section 173(5)(b) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "See the Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c. 5), section 176(1)."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2435/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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