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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-administration-act-1992/schedule-4/part-I/crossheading-local-authorities-etc/paragraph-wrapper4n1",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1992/5",
  "legislation_title": "Social Security Administration Act 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-administration-act-1992",
  "path": "schedule/4/part/I/crossheading/local-authorities-etc/paragraph/wrapper4n1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": null,
  "heading": null,
  "text": "A member, officer or employee of an authority administering housing benefit or council tax benefit.\nA person authorised to exercise any function of such an authority relating to such a benefit or any employee of such a person.\nA person authorised under section 139A(1) of this Act to consider and report to the Secretary of State on the administration of housing benefit or council tax benefit.\nA member, officer or employee of a county council in England who exercises—\n(a)any function conferred on the county council by regulations made under section 7A of this Act;\n(b)any function in connection with a relevant purpose within the meaning of section 7B(3) of this Act.\nA person authorised to exercise any such function of such a county council or an employee of such a person.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 Pt. I inserted (1.7.1997) by Social Security Administration (Fraud) Act 1997 (c. 47), ss. 4(1), 25(1); S.I. 1997/1577, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 Pt. I repealed (1.4.2013 in so far as relate to the abolition of council tax benefit) by Welfare Reform Act 2012 (c. 5), s. 150(3), Sch. 14 Pt. 1; S.I. 2013/358, art. 8(c), Sch. 4 (with arts. 9, 10, Sch. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 Pt. I inserted (3.7.2007) by Welfare Reform Act 2007 (c. 5), ss. 41(3), 70(1)(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2012/5",
      "affecting_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2012"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2023/48",
      "affecting_title": "Veterans Advisory and Pensions Committees Act 2023"
    }
  ],
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:36:26.977425+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."
}