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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-1990/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1990/1788",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Fund (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-1990",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations–\n(a) specify a condition to be satisfied before payments of certain awards out of the social fund are made (regulation 2);\n(b) specify the circumstances in which an award of a payment out of the social fund is to be extinguished (regulation 3); and\n(c) amend the Social Fund (Applications) Regulations 1988 by specifying the time at which an application is to be treated as made (regulation 4).\nThese Regulations are made under provisions of the Social Security Act 1986 which have not yet been in force for 6 months; they are, accordingly, exempt by section 61(5)(a) of the Social Security Act 1986 from reference to the Social Security Advisory Committee and have not been so referred.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/1788/note",
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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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