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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefit-dependency-amendment-regulations-1989/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1989/523",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security Benefit (Dependency) Amendment Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefit-dependency-amendment-regulations-1989",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations make various amendments to the Social Security Benefit (Dependency) Regulations 1977 (“the principal Regulations”).\nRegulation 2 amends in regulation 4A of the principal Regulations the description of certain statutory provisions. Regulation 3 adds a reference to widowed mother’s allowance to the list of benefits for which a person, entitled to child benefit, is treated in some circumstances as not so entitled for the purposes of determining entitlement to those benefits.\nRegulation 4 amends the reference in regulation 8(7) of the principal Regulations. Regulation 5 provides for the apportionment of payments by way of occupational pension made otherwise than weekly.\nRegulation 6 amends regulation 10(2)(e) to provide that a dependency increase may be payable to a beneficiary where the dependant is employed in caring for the beneficiary’s child but is not residing with him.\nRegulation 7 provides for the revocation of regulation 10(2)(f) of the principal Regulations and for a consequential revocation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/523/note",
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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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