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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-contribution-conditions-for-unemployment-and-sickness-benefit-transitional-regulations-1988/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1363",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Contribution Conditions for Unemployment and Sickness Benefit) Transitional Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-contribution-conditions-for-unemployment-and-sickness-benefit-transitional-regulations-1988",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations are made under section 18(4) of the Social Security Act 1988. They are consequential upon the coming into force of section 6 of that Act. Section 6 changes the contribution conditions for unemployment and sickness benefit. These Regulations contain savings for existing beneficiaries to both these benefits and for people receiving statutory sick pay.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1363/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:01:18.469436+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."
}