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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefit-dependency-amendment-regulations-1985/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefit-dependency-amendment-regulations-1985/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1985/1190",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security Benefit (Dependency) Amendment Regulations 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefit-dependency-amendment-regulations-1985",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "SOCIAL SECURITY\nLaid before Parliament in draft\nMade 29th July 1985\nComing into Operation 16th September 1985\nWhereas these are regulations to which the provisions of section 27(1)(a) of the Social Security Act 1985 apply and are the first such regulations to be made before the expiry of the period of 6 months beginning with the commencement of section 13 of that Act:\nAnd whereas a draft of these regulations was laid before Parliament, pursuant to section 27(4) of that Act, and approved by resolution of each House of Parliament:\nNow, therefore, the Secretary of State for Social Services, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 45(2A)(b), 45A(3)(b), 46(4), 47(1A)(b), 49, 66(3), (4)(b) and (5) and 166 of, and Schedule 20 to, the Social Security Act 1975, hereby makes the following regulations:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "section 45A was inserted by the Health and Social Security Act 1984 (c. 48), section 12; sections 45(2A), 45A(3), 46(4), 47(1A) and 66(3), (4) and (5) were inserted or substituted by the Social Security Act 1985, section 13."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1985/1190/introduction",
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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."
}