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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-provisions-relating-to-qualifying-young-persons-amendment-regulations-2006/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2006/692",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Provisions relating to Qualifying Young Persons) (Amendment) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-provisions-relating-to-qualifying-young-persons-amendment-regulations-2006",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend—\nregulations 10 and 11 of, and paragraph 7(b) of Schedule 2 to, the Social Security Benefit (Dependency) Regulations 1977,\nregulations 16, 16ZA and 16A of the Social Security (Widow’s Benefit and Retirement Pensions) Regulations 1979, and\nregulations 9, 10 and 12 of the Social Security (Incapacity Benefit – Increases for Dependants) Regulations 1994,\nto reflect the fact that persons in respect of whom child benefit is payable after their 16th birthdays are no longer referred to as children, but as qualifying young persons, by virtue of the Child Benefit Act 2005.\nA full regulatory impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as it has no impact on the costs of business, charities and voluntary bodies.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/692/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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