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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-pensions-home-responsiblities-amendment-regulations-2003/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/1767",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security Pensions (Home Responsiblities) Amendment Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-pensions-home-responsiblities-amendment-regulations-2003",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations further amend the Social Security Pensions (Home Responsibilities) Regulations 1994 (S.I.1994/704) (“the 1994 Regulations”).\nRegulation 2 amends the 1994 Regulations to provide that home responsibilities protection shall be available to a person who is to be taken to have been precluded from regular employment by responsibilities at home in respect of the year 2003-04 and any subsequent year throughout which he was an approved foster parent. Each year of home responsibilities protection is deducted from the total number of years for which the contribution conditions for basic retirement pension have to be met.\nThese Regulations do not impose any costs on business.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/1767/note",
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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."
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