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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-recovery-of-benefits-act-1997-commencement-order-1997/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/2085",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Recovery of Benefits) Act 1997 (Commencement) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-recovery-of-benefits-act-1997-commencement-order-1997",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Appointed days",
  "text": "(1) The following provisions of the 1997 Act shall come into force on 3rd September 1997 for the purpose of conferring on the Secretary of State the powers to make regulations:\nsection 1(2) insofar as it relates to paragraphs 4 and 8 of Part I of Schedule 1\nsection 4(9)\nsection 11(5) and (6)\nsection 12(6) and (7)\nsection 13(3)\nsection 14(2), (3) and (4)\nsection 16(1) and (2)\nsection 18\nsection 19\nsection 21(3)\nsection 23(1), (2), (5) and (7).\n(2) The 1997 Act to the extent it is not already in force shall come into force on 6th October 1997.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2085/article/2",
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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."
}