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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-hospital-in-patients-amendment-regulations-2001/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/944",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Hospital In-Patients) Amendment Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-hospital-in-patients-amendment-regulations-2001",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "SOCIAL SECURITY\nMade 13th March 2001\nLaid before Parliament 16th March 2001\nComing into force 9th April 2001\nThe Secretary of State for Social Security, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 73(1)(b), 189(1) and (4) and 191 of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after agreement by the Social Security Advisory Committee that proposals to make these Regulations should not be referred to them, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1992 c. 5; section 73(1) was amended by the Jobseekers Act 1995 (c. 18), Schedule 2, paragraph 49(2). Section 189(1) was amended by the Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions, etc.) Act 1999 (c. 2), Schedule 3, paragraph 57(2). Section 191 is cited for the meaning assigned to the word “prescribe”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See section 173(1)(b) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/944/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."
}