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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-act-1995/schedule-2/paragraph-53",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-act-1995/schedule-2/paragraph-53.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1995/18",
  "legislation_title": "Jobseekers Act 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-act-1995",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/53",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "53",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Section 105 of the Administration Act (failure to maintain) is amended as follows.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) In subsection (3), at the beginning insert “Subject to subsection (4) below,\".\n(4) After subsection (3) insert—\n“(4) For the purposes of this section, in its application to an income-based jobseeker’s allowance, a person is liable to maintain another if that other person is his or her spouse.”",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 53(2) repealed (27.10.2008) by Welfare Reform Act 2007 (c. 5), ss. 67, 70(2), Sch. 8; S.I. 2008/787, art. 2(4)(g)(iii)"
    }
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      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2012/5",
      "affecting_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2012"
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    {
      "type": "repealed",
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      "affecting_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2012"
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    {
      "type": "repealed",
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      "affecting_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2012"
    },
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2012/5",
      "affecting_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2012"
    },
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2009/24",
      "affecting_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2009"
    },
    {
      "type": "repealed",
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      "affecting_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2012"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1995/18/schedule/2/paragraph/53",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:33:11.946858+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."
}