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  "legislation": "uksi/2012/2379",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-cold-weather-payments-general-amendment-no-2-regulations-2012",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "This Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of a defect in S.I.2012/2280 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument\nSocial Security\nMade 17th September 2012\nLaid before Parliament 18th September 2012\nComing into force in accordance with regulation 1(2)\nThe Secretary of State for Work and Pensions makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 138(2) and (4) and 175(1) and (4) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992.\nThe Social Security Advisory Committee has agreed that proposals in respect of these Regulations should not be referred to it.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1992 c.4; section 138(4) defines “prescribed”. Amendments not material to these Regulations have been made to section 175(1) and (4)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See section 173(1)(b) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c.5)."
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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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