{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1989/section-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1989/section-23.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1989/24",
  "legislation_title": "Social Security Act 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1989",
  "path": "section/23",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Equal treatment for men and women.",
  "text": "Schedule 5 to this Act shall have effect for the purpose of implementing the directive of the Council of the European Communities, dated 24th July 1986, relating to the principle of equal treatment for men and women in occupational social security schemes, and of making additional, supplemental and consequential provision.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "86/378/EEC."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 23 partly in force; s. 23 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 33(2); s. 23 in force for certain purposes at 23.6.1994 by S.I. 1994/1661, art. 2(c); s. 23 in force for further certain purposes at 24.8.2007 by S.I. 2007/2445, art. 2(a)"
    }
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1989/24/section/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:46:43.679143+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."
}