{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefits-up-rating-order-1990/article-7",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1990/320",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefits-up-rating-order-1990",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Increase in rate of graduated retirement benefit and increments thereof",
  "text": "(1) In the National Insurance Act 1965, the sum of 5.71 pence referred to in section 36(1) (graduated retirement benefit) shall be increased by 7.6 per cent.; and from and including 9th April 1990 the reference in that provision to that sum shall accordingly have effect as a reference to 6.14 pence.\n(2) It is hereby directed that the sums which are the increases of graduated retirement benefit under Schedule 2 to the Social Security (Graduated Retirement Benefit) (No. 2) Regulations 1978 (increases for deferred retirement) shall be increased by 7.6 per cent. of their amount apart from this Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1965 c. 51. Section 36 was repealed by the Social Security Act 1973 (c. 38) but subsection (1) is now continued in force by regulation 3 of the Social Security (Graduated Retirement Benefit) (No. 2) Regulations 1978 (S.I. 1978/393) in the modified form set out in the Schedule to those Regulations as amended by article 7 of the Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 1989 (S.I. 1989/43). See also regulation 2 of those Regulations, as amended by regulation 3 of S.I. 1989/893."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1978/393."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/320/article/7",
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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."
}