{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-revaluation-of-earnings-factors-order-1981/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-revaluation-of-earnings-factors-order-1981/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1981/598",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security Revaluation of Earnings Factors Order 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-revaluation-of-earnings-factors-order-1981",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "SOCIAL SECURITY\nMade 10th April 1981\nLaid before Parliament 23rd April 1981\nComing into Operation 14th May 1981\nThe Secretary of State for Social Services, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 21 of the Social Security Pensions Act 1975 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, having on a review under the said section 21 concluded, having had regard to earlier Orders under that section, that earnings factors for the relevant previous tax years have not, during the period taken into account for that review, maintained their value in relation to the general level of earnings obtaining in Great Britain, hereby makes the following Order:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "section 21 was amended by the Social Security Act 1979 (c. 18), section 10 and the Social Security Act 1980 (c. 30), section 3(3)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1979/832, 1980/728."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1981/598/introduction",
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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."
}