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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1988-commencement-no-1-order-1988/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/520",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security Act 1988 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1988-commencement-no-1-order-1988",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Appointed days",
  "text": "The day appointed for the coming into force of—\n(a) the provisions of the Social Security Act 1988 specified in Part I of the Schedule to this Order, is 17th March 1988;\n(b) Schedule 4, paragraph 20 (housing benefit finance) and section 16(1) (minor and consequential amendments) in so far as it relates to it, is 1st April 1988;\n(c) the provisions of the Social Security Act 1988 specified in Part II of the Schedule to this Order, is 6th April 1988;\n(d) the provisions of that Act specified in Part III of the Schedule to this Order, is 11th April 1988;\n(e) section 6 (contribution conditions for short-term benefits), and section 16(2) in so far as it relates to the repeals in Schedule 5 of provisions in Schedule 3 to the Social Security Act 1975, is 2nd October 1988; and\n(f) section 7 (unemployment benefit and occupational pensions), is 1st January 1989.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1975 c. 14."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/520/article/2",
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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."
}