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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/2239",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Claims and Payments and Adjudication) Amendment Regulations 1997",
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  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "SOCIAL SECURITY\nMade 15th September 1997\nLaid before Parliament 22nd September 1997\nComing into force 13th October 1997\nThe Secretary of State for Social Security, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 5(1)(a) and (b), 27(1), 61(1), 189(1) and (3) to (5) and 191 of the Social Security Administration Act 1992, and of all other powers enabling her in that behalf, after agreement by the Social Security Advisory Committee that proposals to make these Regulations should not be referred to it, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1992 c. 5; sections 5 and 61 were amended by the Jobseekers Act 1995 (c. 18), Schedule 2, paragraphs 39 and 45. Section 191 is an interpretation provision and is cited for the definition of “prescribe”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See section 173(1)(b) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992."
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2239/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."
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