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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefit-dependency-amendment-no-3-regulations-1985/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1985/1618",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security Benefit (Dependency) Amendment (No. 3) Regulations 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefit-dependency-amendment-no-3-regulations-1985",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "SOCIAL SECURITY\nMade 25th October 1985\nLaid before Parliament 4th November 1985\nComing into Operation 25th November 1985\nThe Secretary of State for Social Services, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 49 and 166(1) of, and Schedule 20 to, the Social Security Act 1975 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following regulations, the Social Security Advisory Committee having agreed that proposals to make the regulations need not be referred to it:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See the definitions of “prescribe” and “regulations”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "section 49 was amended by the Health and Social Security Act 1984 (c.48), Schedule 4, paragraph 3."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "See the Social Security Act 1980 (c.30), section 10(2)."
    }
  ],
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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."
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