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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-recovery-of-benefits-act-1997/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1997/27",
  "legislation_title": "Social Security (Recovery of Benefits) Act 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-recovery-of-benefits-act-1997",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to re-state, with amendments, Part IV of the Social Security Administration Act 1992.\n[19th March 1997]\nBe it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act modified (8.9.1998) by 1998 c. 14, s. 2(1)(2)(h); S.I. 1998/2209, art. 2(a)-(c), Sch. 1 Pt. IAct: power to modify conferred (29.11.1999) by 1998 c. 14, ss. 11(1)(3); S.I. 1999/3178, art. 2(1)(a), Sch. 1 (subject to transitional provisions in Schs. 21-23)Act: power to amend conferred (2.12.1999) by 1998 c. 47, ss. 87; S.I. 1999/3209, art. 2, Sch."
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      "text": "Act applied (with modifications) (1.10.2010) by The Employment and Support Allowance (Transitional Provisions, Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit) (Existing Awards) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/875), regs. 1(2), 16, Sch. 2 (which amending S.I. was revoked (27.8.2010) by SI 2010/1906, reg. 2)"
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      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Act applied (with modifications) (1.10.2010) by The Employment and Support Allowance (Transitional Provisions, Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit) (Existing Awards) (No. 2) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/1907), reg. 16(2)(d), Sch. 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."
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