{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-medical-evidence-claims-and-payments-amendment-regulations-1989/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-medical-evidence-claims-and-payments-amendment-regulations-1989/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/1686",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Medical Evidence, Claims and Payments) Amendment Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-medical-evidence-claims-and-payments-amendment-regulations-1989",
  "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, Claims and Payments) Amendment Regulations 1989 and shall come into force for the purposes of regulation 6, in relation to a particular beneficiary, at the beginning of the first benefit week to commence for that beneficiary on or after 9th October 1989 and for all other purposes on 9th October 1989.\n(2) In these Regulations–\n“the Claims and Payments Regulations” means the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987; and\n“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. 1987/1968; amended by S.I. 1988/522, 1725 and 1989/136."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1976/615; to which the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1982/699 and 1984/1303."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "modified",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/492",
      "affecting_title": "The Child Benefit and Guardian’s Allowance (Administration) Regulations 2003"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1686/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:37:07.537983+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."
}