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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-reciprocal-agreements-order-2017/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2017/159",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Reciprocal Agreements) Order 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-reciprocal-agreements-order-2017",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Social Security\nMade 15th February 2017\nComing into force 6th April 2017\nAt the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 15th day of February 2017\nPresent,\nThe Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council\nThe Orders in Council specified in Schedule 2 to this Order modified or adapted certain enactments so as to give effect to the agreements set out in the Schedules to those Orders.\nHer Majesty’s Government in consequence of changes in the law of Great Britain has proposed to each of the Governments with whom the United Kingdom has made such an agreement, alterations to the agreement.\nSection 179(1)(b), (2), (4) and (5) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 provides that for the purpose of giving effect to any such agreement as it would be if it were so altered in accordance with such proposals, Her Majesty may by Order in Council make provision for modifying or adapting the Social Security Administration Act 1992, the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 and Part 5 of the Pensions Act 2014, and any regulations made under those Acts or section 30 of the Pensions Act 2014, in their application to cases affected by the proposed alterations.\nAccordingly, Her Majesty is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 179(1)(b), (2) and (5) and 189(4) and (5) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992, to order as follows.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1992 c.5. Section 179 was amended by paragraph 33 of Schedule 16 to the Pensions Act 2014 (c.19). Other amendments to section 179 are not relevant to this Order."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1992 c.4."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "2014 c.19."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Subsections (4) and (5) of section 189 were amended by paragraph 109 of Schedule 7 to the Social Security Act 1998 (c.14). Sub-section (4) was also amended by S.I. 2013/252."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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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."
}