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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1989-commencement-no-1-order-1989/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1989/1238",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security Act 1989 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1989-commencement-no-1-order-1989",
  "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 1989 on the following dates—\n21st July 1989 for the provisions in—\nparagraph 19 of Schedule 8 (minor and consequential amendments), which relates to joint citations,\nsections 9 to 13, relating to unemployment benefit and to income support and unemployment, for the purpose only of authorising the making of Regulations; 1st October 1989 for the provisions in—\nsection 7 and Schedule 1 (except paragraph 8(7) and (8)), together with the associated repeals in Schedule 9, which relate to abolition of the earnings rule etc.,\nparagraph 11(4) of Schedule 3 (adjudication), which relates to review of decisions,\nparagraphs 1 to 5, 9 to 13 and 15 of Schedule 6, which contain amendments relating to occupational and personal pensions,\nparagraphs 1, 8 to 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18 to 28 of Schedule 7 (pre-consolidation amendments),\nparagraphs 14 and 15 of Schedule 8 (minor and consequential amendments).\n5th October 1989 for the provision in section 1, which relates to primary Class 1 contributions, in respect of contributions on earnings paid in any tax week beginning on or after 5th October 1989. 9th October 1989 for the provisions in—\nsection 5 relating to liability of parents to maintain children under 19 in respect of whom income support is paid,\nsection 8 relating to increase of age limit to 80 in respect of mobility allowance,\nsections 9 to 13, relating to unemployment benefit and to income support and unemployment, to the extent that they do not come into force on 21st July 1989,\nparagraphs 2,3,7 and 16 of Schedule 8 (minor and consequential amendments).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1238/note",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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