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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-maternity-allowance-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2014/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2014/884",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Maternity Allowance) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-maternity-allowance-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2014",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Social Security\nMade 1st April 2014\nLaid before Parliament 2nd April 2014\nComing into force 18th May 2014\nThe Secretary of State for Work and Pensions makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 42(1) of, and paragraph 4(1)(b) of Schedule 1 to, the Child Support Act 1991, sections 35(3), 35B(11) and 175(1), (3), (4) and (5) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992, sections 1(2C) and 6(4) of, and paragraph 3 of Schedule 1 to, the Jobseekers Act 1995, paragraph 1(a) of Schedule 2 to the Welfare Reform Act 2007 and sections 12, 96 and 97 of, and paragraphs 2 and 4(1)(b) of Schedule 1 to, the Welfare Reform Act 2012.\nThis instrument contains only regulations made by virtue of, or consequential upon, section 35B of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 and is made before the end of the period of 6 months beginning with the coming into force of that section.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1991 c. 48. Schedule 1 was substituted by section 1(3) of the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000 (c. 19)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1992 c. 4. Section 35(3)(a) was amended by section 11(1) of, and paragraph 6 of Schedule 1 to, the Work and Families Act 2006 (c. 18) and section 35B was inserted by S.I. 2014/[ ]. See section 122(1) for the definition of “prescribe”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1995 c. 18. Section 1(2C) was inserted by section 59 of, and Schedule 7 to, the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999 (c. 30) and repealed for certain purposes by section 147 of, and Part I of Schedule 14 to, the Welfare Reform Act 2012 (c. 5). Section 6 was substituted by section 49(1) and (3) of the Welfare Reform Act 2012."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "2007 c. 5."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "2012 c. 5."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "See section 173(5)(b) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c. 5)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/884/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."
}