{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefit-dependency-amendment-regulations-1988/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefit-dependency-amendment-regulations-1988/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/554",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security Benefit (Dependency) Amendment Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefit-dependency-amendment-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security Benefit (Dependency) Amendment Regulations 1988 and shall come into force on 11th April 1988.\n(2) In these Regulations, “the principal regulations” means the Social Security Benefit (Dependency) Regulations 1977.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1977/343; the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1984/1698 and 1987/355 and section 37(2) of the Social Security Act 1986 (c. 50)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/554/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:09:10.603029+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."
}