{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-lone-parents-and-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2012/schedule/paragraph-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2012/874",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Lone Parents and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-lone-parents-and-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2012",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies to a lone parent who falls within this Schedule if, on the commencement day, the lone parent is responsible for and a member of the same household as—\n(a) a single child who will attain the age of 6 after 20th May 2012 and before 20th August 2012; or\n(b) more than one child, the youngest of whom will attain the age of 6 after 20th May 2012 and before 20th August 2012.\n(2) Subject to paragraphs 6 and 7, regulations 2, 4 and 5 come into force in relation to a lone parent to whom this paragraph applies at the end of the last day of the benefit week in which the child in question attains the age of 6.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/874/schedule/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:36:12.411839+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."
}