{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1989/section-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1989/section-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1989/24",
  "legislation_title": "Social Security Act 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1989",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Liability of parants to maintain children under the age of nineteen in respect of whom income support is paid.",
  "text": "1)–(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) In section 17(2)(a) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1970 (seaman’s dependants to consists of his spouse and certain persons under the age of sixteen) for the word “sixteen” there should be substituted the word “ nineteen”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 1–3; 4(1)–(4); 5(1)–(4); 6(1); 7(1)–(5); 9–19; 21; 22(1)–(6) and (8); 27; words in s. 28(2); ss. 28(3) and (4); 29(2) and (5); words in s.30(1); s.32; Sch. 1, paras. 1–10; Schs. 2 and 3; Sch. 4, paras. 1–21, 24(added by Social Security Act 1990 (c. 27, SIF 113:1), Sch. 1 para. 6); Sch. 7 except paras 1, 14, 21 and 27; Sch. 8, paras. 1–7, 9, 10(1), 11, 12(2), (5) and (6), 14–18, 19(a) and (b) were repealed (1.7.1992) by the Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1992 (c. 6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1970 c. 36"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "The text of s. 5(5) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.7.1992"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1989/24/section/5",
    "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."
}