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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-pensions-home-responsibilities-and-miscellaneous-amendments-amendment-regulations-1988/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/623",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security Pensions (Home Responsibilities and Miscellaneous Amendments) Amendment Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-pensions-home-responsibilities-and-miscellaneous-amendments-amendment-regulations-1988",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "SOCIAL SECURITY\nMade 25th March 1988\nLaid before Parliament 28th March 1988\nComing into force 6th April 1988\nThe Secretary of State for Social Services, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 13(6) of, and paragraph 5(6) of Schedule 3 and Schedule 20 to, the Social Security Act 1975 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, the Social Security Advisory Committee having agreed that the proposals to make these Regulations should not be referred to it, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1975 c. 14. Section 13(6) was amended by the Social Security Act 1986 (c. 50), Schedule 8, paragraph 2(6); paragraph 5(6) of Schedule 3 was added by the Social Security Pensions Act 1975 (c. 60), section 19(3) and substituted by the Social Security Act 1979 (c. 18), section 5, Schedule 1, paragraph 3; Schedule 20 is cited because of the meaning ascribed to the word “Regulations”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See section 10(2)(b) of the Social Security Act 1980."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/623/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."
}