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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefit-married-women-and-widows-special-provisions-amendment-regulations-1980/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1980/1168",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Benefit) (Married Women and Widows Special Provisions) Amendment Regulations 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefit-married-women-and-widows-special-provisions-amendment-regulations-1980",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "SOCIAL SECURITY\nLaid before Parliament in draft\nMade 6th August 1980\nComing into Operation 11th August 1980\nWhereas a draft of the following regulations was laid before Parliament and approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament:\nNow, therefore, the Secretary of State for Social Services, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 130(1) of the Social Security Act 1975 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after reference to the National Insurance Advisory Committee, hereby makes the following regulations:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See section 66(2) of the Social Security Pensions Act 1975 (c.60)."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1980/1168/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."
}