{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-medical-evidence-amendment-regulations-1987/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-medical-evidence-amendment-regulations-1987/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/409",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Medical Evidence) Amendment Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-medical-evidence-amendment-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Medical Evidence) Amendment Regulations 1987 and shall come into force on 6th April 1987.\n(2) In these Regulations, “the Medical Evidence Regulations” means the Social Security (Medical Evidence) Regulations 1976.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1976/615; there are no amendments relevant to the subject matter of these Regulations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/409/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:30:06.278368+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."
}