{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1990/section-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1990/section-20.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1990/27",
  "legislation_title": "Social Security Act 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1990",
  "path": "section/20",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Interpretation.",
  "text": "In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“the 1973 Act” means the Social Security Act 1973;\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n“the Pensions Act” means the Social Security Pensions Act 1975;\n“prescribe”, except in section 15, means prescribe by regulations;\n“the principal Act” means the Social Security Act 1975;\n“regulations” means regulations made by the Secretary of State.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 1–5, 6(1)–(3), 8–10, 16, 17(1)–(9), words in s. 20, s. 22(1); Sch. 1 paras. 1–4, 5(1) and (2), 6; Sch. 5; Sch. 6, paras. 1, 3, 4(1) and (2), 5–7, 8(1), (3), (5), (7), (8) and (11), 9–12, 14–26, 27(2), 28, 30, 31(a) and (b) were repealed (1.7.1992) by Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1992 (c. 6) on consolidation"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1973 c. 38."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1975 c. 60."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1975 c. 14."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/27/section/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:43:05.680831+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."
}