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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1993/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1993/3",
  "legislation_title": "Social Security Act 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1993",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to amend sections 3 and 85 of the Social Security Act 1986, to provide for the making of certain payments into the National Insurance Fund, and for connected purposes.\n[29th January 1993]\nBe it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act partly in force at Royal Assent, see s.5(2)(3)."
    },
    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E1",
      "text": "This Act does not extend to Northern Ireland except as provided by S.5(4)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1993/3/introduction",
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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."
}