{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-recovery-of-benefits-act-1997/section-34",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-recovery-of-benefits-act-1997/section-34.json",
  "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": "section/34",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "34",
  "heading": "Short title, commencement and extent.",
  "text": "(1) This Act may be cited as the Social Security (Recovery of Benefits) Act 1997.\n(2) Sections 1 to 24, 26 to 28 and 33 are to come into force on such day as the Secretary of State may by order appoint, and different days may be appointed for different purposes.\n(3) Apart from sections 25 to 27, section 33 so far as it relates to any enactment which extends to Northern Ireland, and this section this Act does not extend to Northern Ireland.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 34(1) applied (with modifications) (1.10.2008) by Social Security (Recovery of Benefits) (Lump Sum Payments) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1596), regs. 1(1), 2, Sch. 1 (with reg. 6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 34(3) applied (with modifications) (1.10.2008) by Social Security (Recovery of Benefits) (Lump Sum Payments) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1596), regs. 1(1), 2, Sch. 1 (with reg. 6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "P",
      "label": "P1",
      "text": "S. 34(2) power fully exercised (1.9.1997): different dates appointed for specified provisions by S.I. 1997/2085"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1997/27/section/34",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:26:12.739105+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}