{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1988-commencement-no-1-order-1988/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1988-commencement-no-1-order-1988/note.json",
  "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": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order provides for the coming into force of provisions of the Social Security Act 1988 on the following dates—\n17th March 1988 for the provisions in—\nsection 13 relating to welfare food,\nsection 14 relating to National Health Service remission of charges and payment of travelling expenses, and\nparagraphs 15, 16 and 19 of Schedule 4 relating to statutory maternity pay;\n1st April 1988 for the provision in Schedule 4, paragraph 20 relating to housing benefit finance;\n6th April 1988 for the provisions in section 9 and Schedule 2 relating to earnings factors and transfer values and in Schedules 4 and 5 relating to statutory maternity pay and pensions schemes;\n11th April 1988 for the provisions in—\nsection 2(4) to (10) and Schedule 1 relating to industrial injuries benefits,\nsection 3 relating to family credit,\nsection 11 and Schedule 3 relating to the Social Fund,\nSchedules 4 and 5 relating to the Social Fund and income support;\n2nd October 1988 for section 6 which relates to contribution conditions for short-term benefits;\n1st January 1989 for section 7 which relates to unemployment benefit and occupational pension.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/520/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:09:30.070871+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}