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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1985/section-5",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1985/53",
  "legislation_title": "Social Security Act 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1985",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Managers of schemes.",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may by regulations provide who is to be treated as a manager of an occupational pension scheme for any of the purposes—\n(a) of the Social Security Acts 1975 to 1991; or\n(b) of the Social Security Act 1973 or\n(c) of Part VI of the Social Security Pensions Act 1975\n(2) Section 61B of the Social Security Pensions Act 1975shall apply to the power to make regulations under subsection (1) above as it applies to powers to make regulations under that Act.\n(3) Regulations made under this section shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.\n(4) In this section “occupational pension scheme” has the meaning assigned to it by section 66 of the Social Security Pensions Act 1975.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "text": "Words substituted by Statutory Sick Pay Act (c. 3), s. 3(1)(d)"
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 5(1)(c) and word “or” added by Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1992 (c. 6), Sch. 2, para. 67(1)"
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      "text": "Words substituted by Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1992 (c. 6), Sch. 2, para. 67(2)"
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      "text": "1973 c. 38."
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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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