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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-severe-disablement-allowance-amendment-regulations-1991/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-severe-disablement-allowance-amendment-regulations-1991/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/1747",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Severe Disablement Allowance) Amendment Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-severe-disablement-allowance-amendment-regulations-1991",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "SOCIAL SECURITY\nMade 25th July 1991\nComing into force 14th October 1991\nWhereas a draft of this instrument was laid before Parliament in accordance with the provisions of section 167(1) of the Social Security Act 1975 and approved by resolution of each House.\nNow, therefore, the Secretary of State for Social Security, in exercise of powers conferred by sections 36(4)(c), 36A(4), 128(2), 129(1), 131, 132 and 166 of, and Schedule 20 to, the Social Security Act 1975 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after agreement by the Social Security Advisory Committee that proposals to make these Regulations should not be referred to it, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1975 c. 14; section 167(1) was amended by the Social Security Pensions Act 1975 (c. 60), Schedule 5 and the Social Security Act 1986 (c. 50), section 62(3), and Schedule 10, paragraph 65."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1975 c. 14. Schedule 20 is cited for the meaning it ascribes to and Section 36 was substituted by section 11 of the Health and Social Security Act 1984 (c. 48). Section 36A was inserted by section 2(1) of the Social Security Act 1990 (c. 27)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "See the Social Security Act 1986, section 61(1)(b) and (10); the Social Security Act 1989 (c. 24), Schedule 8, paragraph 12(4) added a definition of to section 61(10) of the Social Security Act 1986."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1747/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."
}