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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1990-commencement-no-1-order-1990/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1990/1446",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security Act 1990 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1990-commencement-no-1-order-1990",
  "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 1990 on the following dates—\n18th July 1990 for the provisions in—\nSchedule 3 relating to the Pensions Ombudsman in so far as relevant for the purpose of authorising the making of regulations (Schedule 3 for other purposes coming into force on 1st October 1990),\nsection 13 relating to registration of occupational and personal pension schemes,\nparagraph 12 of Schedule 4 relating to levies towards meeting certain expenditure under the Social Security Pensions Act 1975,\nparagraph 13 of Schedule 4 relating to the extension of certain pension provisions to Northern Ireland,\nparagraph 14 of Schedule 4 relating to the extension of certain provisions to widowers in the Social Security Pensions Act 1975,\nsection 16(2), (3) and (9) relating to the removal of certain liabilities from the National Insurance Fund,\nsection 17(7) and Schedule 5 relating to special penalties in the case of certain returns,\nparagraph 1 of Schedule 6 relating to Orders increasing contributions,\nparagraph 10 of Schedule 6 (maternity allowance: contribution conditions for women paid otherwise than weekly) in so far as relevant for the purpose of authorising the making of regulations (paragraph 10 for other purposes coming into force on 28th October 1990),\nparagraph 20 of Schedule 6 relating to Community Charge benefit in the form of reduction of charge in a subsequent year,\nparagraph 23 of Schedule 6 relating to the functions of the Deputy Government Actuary,\nparagraph 28 of Schedule 6 relating to the unauthorised disclosure of information relating to particular persons;\n5th August 1990 for the provisions in section 21(1) and Schedule 6, paragraph 25 relating to the entitlement of women members of H M forces to statutory maternity pay where the expected week of confinement is the week commencing 21st October 1990 or a later week;\n17th August 1990 for the provisions in section 11(3)—(6) relating to the restriction on payments to employers out of pension scheme resources, and section 11(1) for the purposes only of giving effect to section 11(3);\n1st October 1990 for the provisions in—\nsection 1 relating to attendance allowance for the terminally ill,\nsection 3(1) — (5), (7) and (8) relating to reduced earnings allowance and retirement allowance,\nsection 12(2) relating to Pensions Ombudsman and certain pensions tribunals;\n15th October 1990 for the provisions in section 8 relating to liability to maintain dependants.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/1446/note",
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  "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."
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