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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1988-commencement-no-2-order-1988/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1226",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security Act 1988 (Commencement No. 2) Order 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1988-commencement-no-2-order-1988",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Appointed day",
  "text": "The day appointed for the coming into force of the provisions of the Social Security Act 1988 specified below is 12th September 1988 —\n(a) section 4 (income support and child benefit);\n(b) Schedule 4, paragraphs 2 (employment and training) and 30 (overpayments), and section 16(1) so far as it relates to those paragraphs; and\n(c) the repeal in Schedule 5 of paragraph 45 of Schedule 10 to the Social Security Act 1986, and section 16(2) so far as it relates to it.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1986 c. 50."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1226/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:03:28.972228+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."
}