{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-earnings-factor-regulations-1979/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-earnings-factor-regulations-1979/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1979/676",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Earnings Factor) Regulations 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-earnings-factor-regulations-1979",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "SOCIAL SECURITY\nMade 18th June 1979\nLaid before Parliament 25th June 1979\nComing into Operation 16th July 1979\nThe Secretary of State for Social Services, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 13(5) and 115(1) of, and paragraph 2 of Schedule 13 to, the Social Security Act 1975, section 35(3) of the Social Security Pensions Act 1975 and section 1(5) of the Social Security (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1977 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf and for the purpose only of consolidating the regulations hereby revoked, hereby makes the following regulations, which accordingly are not subject to the requirement for prior reference to the National Insurance Advisory Committee or to the Occupational Pensions Board:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See section 139(2) of, and paragraph 20 of Schedule 15 to, the Social Security Act 1975."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See section 61(2) of the Social Security Pensions Act 1975 as amended by section 21(4) of, and paragraph 21 of Schedule 3 to, the Social Security Act 1979 (c. 18)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1979/676/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T19:17:33.755297+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."
}