{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-norway-order-1991/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-norway-order-1991/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/767",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Norway) Order 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-norway-order-1991",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "SOCIAL SECURITY\nMade 20th March 1991\nComing into force 1st April 1991\nAt the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 20th day of March 1991\nPresent,\nThe Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council\nWhereas at Oslo on the 19th June 1990 a Convention on social security between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the Kingdom of Norway (hereinafter referred to as “the Convention”) and a Protocol supplementary to the Convention (hereinafter referred to as “the Protocol”) were signed on behalf of those Governments:\nAnd Whereas by Article 38 of the Convention it is provided that the Convention shall enter into force on the first day of the third month following the month in which the instruments of ratification are exchanged:\nAnd Whereas by Article II of the Protocol it is provided that the Protocol shall form an integral part of the Convention:\nAnd Whereas the Convention and the Protocol have been ratified by the said Governments and the instruments of ratification were exchanged on 31st January 1991 and, accordingly, the Convention and the Protocol enter into force on 1st April 1991:\nAnd Whereas by section 143 of the Social Security Act 1975 and section 15 of the Child Benefit Act 1975 it is provided that Her Majesty may by Order in Council make provision for modifying or adapting the said Social Security Act and for modifying the provisions of Part I of the said Child Benefit Act and regulations made under it in their application to cases affected by agreements with other Governments providing for reciprocity in matters specified in those sections:\nAnd Whereas by virtue of section 166(4) of the Social Security Act 1975 any Order in Council made under the said section 143 may be varied by a subsequent Order in Council made under that section:\nNow, therefore, Her Majesty, in pursuance of the said section 143, and the said section 15, and of all other powers enabling Her in that behalf is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered as follows:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "See Cmnd. 1331."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1975 c.14; subsection (1) of section 143 was amended by section 20(1) of the Social Security (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1977 (c.5) and section 65(2) of and Schedule 11 to the Social Security Act 1986 (c.50). Subsection (1A) of section 143 was inserted by section 6(1) of the Social Security Act 1981 (c.33)."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1975 c.61; subsection (1A) of section 15 was inserted by section 6(2) of the Social Security Act 1981."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Order modified (31.12.1992) by The Social Security (Norway) Order 1992 (S.I. 1992/3212), arts. 1, 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Order modified (13.4.1995) by The Social Security (Reciprocal Agreements) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/767), arts. 1, 2, Schs. 1, 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Order modified (7.10.1996) by The Social Security (Reciprocal Agreements) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/1928), arts. 1, 2, Schs. 1, 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Order modified (9.4.2001) by Social Security (Reciprocal Agreements) Order 2001 (S.I. 2001/407), arts. 1, 2, Schs. 1, 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Order modified (5.12.2005) by Social Security (Reciprocal Agreements) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/2765), arts. 1, 2, Schs. 1, 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "Order modified (6.4.2016) by The Social Security (Reciprocal Agreements) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/158), arts. 1, 2, Schs. 1, 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C7",
      "text": "Order modified (6.4.2017) by The Social Security (Reciprocal Agreements) Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/159), art. 1, Sch. 1, Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C8",
      "text": "Order modified (1.1.2021) by The Social Security (Norway) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/1597), arts. 1, 2(1)(2), Sch. (with art. 2(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C9",
      "text": "Order modified (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Iceland) (Liechtenstein) (Norway) Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/1060), arts. 1(3), 3, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C10",
      "text": "Order modified (11.3.2024) by S.S.I. 2023/282, art. 3 (as inserted (S.) by The Social Security (Gibraltar) (Iceland) (Liechtenstein) (Norway) (Further provision in respect of Scotland) Order 2024 (S.S.I. 2024/62), arts. 1(2), 4(2))"
    }
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