{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1998-commencement-no-8-and-savings-and-consequential-and-transitional-provisions-order-1999/schedule-7/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1998-commencement-no-8-and-savings-and-consequential-and-transitional-provisions-order-1999/schedule-7/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/1958",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security Act 1998 (Commencement No. 8, and Savings and Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1998-commencement-no-8-and-savings-and-consequential-and-transitional-provisions-order-1999",
  "path": "schedule/7/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In article 1(2) (citation, commencement and interpretation)—\n(a) after the definition of “the Act\" the following definition shall be inserted—\n““the 1998 Act\" means the Social Security Act 1998;”;\n(b) for the definition of “the appropriate determining authority\" there shall be substituted the following definition—\n““the appropriate determining authority\" means the Secretary of State or, as the case may be, an appeal tribunal or Commissioner within the meaning of section 39 of the 1998 Act;”;\n(c) for the definition of “claimant\" there shall be substituted the following definition—\n““claimant\" means a person claiming an allowance or death benefit under this scheme and includes, in relation to the revision or supersession of a decision, a person affected by that decision;”;\n(d) after the definition of “foundry\" the following definition shall be inserted—\n““medical practitioner\" means a medical practitioner who has experience in the issues specified in regulation 12(1) of the Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 1999;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1958/schedule/7/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:17:53.519662+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."
}