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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-extended-period-of-sickness-amendment-regulations-2016/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2016/502",
  "legislation_title": "The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Extended Period of Sickness) Amendment Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-extended-period-of-sickness-amendment-regulations-2016",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Social Security\nMade 12th April 2016\nLaid before Parliament 19th April 2016\nComing into force 23rd May 2016\nThe Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 2(1) of Schedule 1 to the Jobseekers Act 1995 and section 37(3) and (6) of the Welfare Reform Act 2012, makes the following Regulations.\nThe Social Security Advisory Committee has agreed that the proposals in respect of these Regulations should not be referred to it .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1995 c.18. Paragraph 2(1) of Schedule 1 to the Jobseekers Act 1995 was amended by S.I. 2013/630. Paragraph 2(1) provides that questions about whether a person has limited capability for work are to be determined for the purposes of that Act in accordance with Part 1 of the 2007 Act or Part 1 of the 2012 Act, as the Secretary of State considers appropriate in the person’s case."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2012 c.5."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "See sections 172(1) and 173(1)(b) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c.5)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/502/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."
}