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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-scotland-act-2018/section-3",
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  "legislation": "asp/2018/9",
  "legislation_title": "Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-scotland-act-2018",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Scottish Ministers' duty to promote take-up",
  "text": "The Scottish Ministers must—\n(a) keep under consideration what steps they could take to ensure that individuals are given what they are eligible to be given through the Scottish social security system, and\n(b) if the Ministers consider it appropriate to do so, take any of the steps identified by that consideration.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 3 in force at 22.10.2018 by S.S.I. 2018/298, reg. 2(1)(b) (with reg. 3) (as amended (10.12.2019) by S.S.I. 2019/406, regs. 1, 2(2))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2018/9/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:13:13.200385+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."
}