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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-information-sharing-scotland-regulations-2021/regulation-5",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2021/178",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security Information-sharing (Scotland) Regulations 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-information-sharing-scotland-regulations-2021",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Supply of information to be no more than is necessary",
  "text": "Where the Scottish Ministers supply information under these Regulations, which relates to an individual, the information supplied must be no more than is necessary for the purpose for which it is to be used by the recipient.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 cross-heading inserted (16.1.2024) by The Social Security Information-sharing (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2024 (S.S.I. 2024/8), regs. 1(1), 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 in force at 26.7.2021, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in force at 26.7.2021, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2021/178/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:56:03.692958+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."
}