{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1998-commencement-no-9-and-savings-and-consequential-and-transitional-provisions-order-1999/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1998-commencement-no-9-and-savings-and-consequential-and-transitional-provisions-order-1999/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/2422",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security Act 1998 (Commencement No. 9, and Savings and Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1998-commencement-no-9-and-savings-and-consequential-and-transitional-provisions-order-1999",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Social Security Act 1998 (Commencement No. 9, and Savings and Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Order 1999.\n(2) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires—\n(a) “the Act\" means the Social Security Act 1998;\n(b) “the Regulations\" means the Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 1999 ;\n(c) “relevant benefit\" means any of the benefits to which article 2(c) of this Order refers,\n(d) “relevant benefit” also means the following benefits under the Social Security Act 1975—\n(i) sickness benefit under section 14;\n(ii) unemployment benefit under section 14;\n(iii) invalidity pension under section 15; and\n(iv) invalidity allowance under section 16.\nand references to sections and Schedules are references to sections of, and Schedules to, the Act.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 1(2)(d) added (16.10.2006) by Social Security Act 1998 (Commencement Nos.9 and 11) (Amendment) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/2540), arts. 1(2), 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 1999/991, to which there are amendments not relevant to this Order."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2422/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:59:34.475348+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."
}