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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-severe-disablement-allowance-amendment-regulations-1993/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1993/3194",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Severe Disablement Allowance) Amendment Regulations 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-severe-disablement-allowance-amendment-regulations-1993",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations implement Council Directive 79/7/EEC on the progressive implementation of the principle of equal treatment for men and women on matters of social security in so far as that Directive is relevant to the transitional arrangements for the introduction of severe disablement allowance.\nUnder Regulation 20 of the Social Security (Severe Disablement Allowance) Regulations 1984, persons who were entitled to a non-contributory invalidity pension immediately before 29th November 1984 automatically became entitled to a severe disablement allowance. These Regulations extend that entitlement to certain women who had failed to qualify for a non-contributory invalidity pension because of a condition which applied to married women.\nThese Regulations do not impose any costs on business.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ No. L 6, 10.1.79, p.24."
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/3194/note",
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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."
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