{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1998-commencement-no-12-and-consequential-and-transitional-provisions-order-1999/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/3178",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security Act 1998 (Commencement No. 12 and Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1998-commencement-no-12-and-consequential-and-transitional-provisions-order-1999",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Appointed day",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2) below, 29th November 1999 is the day appointed for the coming into force of the–\n(a) the provisions specified in Schedule 1 to this Order; and\n(b) sections 1 and 4 to 7 in relation to–\n(i) statutory sick pay under Part XI of the Contributions and Benefits Act; and\n(ii) statutory maternity pay under Part XII of that Act,\nin so far as those provisions are not already in force.\n(2) Paragraph (1)(a) above shall not apply in relation to–\n(a) housing benefit;\n(b) council tax benefit; nor\n(c) decisions to which article 4(6) of the Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions, etc.) Act 1999 (Commencement No. 1 and Transitional Provisions) Order 1999 applies.\n(3) 31st March 2000 is the day appointed for the coming into force of paragraph 10 of Schedule 1 (appeal tribunals: supplementary provisions) and sections 5(3) and 7(7) in so far as they relate to it.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 1999/527 (C. 11)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/3178/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:34:16.806054+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."
}