{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1973-commencement-no-3-order-1974/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1974/164",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security Act 1973 (Commencement No. 3) Order 1974",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1973-commencement-no-3-order-1974",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Save as is provided in paragraph (2) of this article and in article 3 of this order, the day appointed for the coming into operation of all the provisions of the Social Security Act 1973 for which no day has previously been appointed other than those set out in Schedule 1 to this order shall be 6th April 1975.\n(2) The day appointed by paragraph (1) of this article for the coming into operation of section 12(3) of the Social Security Act 1973 is appointed only for the purposes of earnings-related supplement under section 10(8) of that Act and for no other purposes of Chapter II of that Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "For days previously appointed see S.I. 1973/1249, 1433 (1973 II, pp. 3703, 4383)."
    }
  ],
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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."
}