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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-scotland-act-2018/section-65",
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  "legislation": "asp/2018/9",
  "legislation_title": "Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018",
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  "path": "section/65",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "65",
  "heading": "Consideration for debtor's circumstances",
  "text": "(1) This section applies to decisions of the Scottish Ministers about—\n(a) whether to seek to recover money owed under section 63, and\n(b) the method by which money owed under that section is to be recovered.\n(2) In making a decision to which this section applies, the Scottish Ministers must have regard to the financial circumstances of the individual who owes the money (so far as those circumstances are known to the Ministers).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 65 in force at 22.10.2018 by S.S.I. 2018/298, reg. 2(1)(k) (with reg. 3) (as amended (10.12.2019) by S.S.I. 2019/406, regs. 1, 2(2))"
    }
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      "type": "word substituted",
      "affecting": "asp/2025/2",
      "affecting_title": "Social Security (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 2025"
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2018/9/section/65",
    "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."
}