{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-finland-order-1984/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-finland-order-1984/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1984/125",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Finland) Order 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-finland-order-1984",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "This Order, which comes into operation on the day on which it is made, makes provision for the modification of the Social Security Act 1975, and that part of the Child Benefit Act 1975 which relates to child benefit, so as to give effect to the Convention on social security (set out, as amended, in Schedule 1) made between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the Republic of Finland on the 12th December 1978, as amended by two further protocols made on the 21st March 1980 and on the 24th January 1983 respectively, and the Protocol concerning health care which is set out in Schedule 2 hereto.\nThe Convention relates to reciprocity in contributions, sickness and maternity benefit and invalidity pension, unemployment benefit, old age pension and widow's benefit, benefits for industrial injuries and diseases and child benefit.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1984/125/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T17:51:22.478677+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."
}