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  "legislation": "ukpga/1979/18",
  "legislation_title": "Social Security Act 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1979",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to amend the law relating to social security.\n[22nd March 1979]",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "text": "Words of enactment omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62) s. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act partly in force at Royal Assent; Act wholly in force (insofar as not repealed) at 28.11.1979 see S.I. 1979/1031, art. 2(b)"
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      "text": "The base date version of this Act is as revised to 1.7.1992 and takes account of the effects on it of the consolidating legislation which came into force at that date"
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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