# Social Security Act 1989, Section 5: Liability of parants to maintain children under the age of nineteen in respect of whom income support is paid.


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(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”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1989/24/section/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1989/section-5
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