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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-sweden-order-1988/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/590",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Sweden) Order 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-sweden-order-1988",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "SOCIAL SECURITY\nMade 23rd March 1988\nComing into force 1st May 1988\nAt the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 23rd day of March 1988\nPresent,\nThe Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council\nWhereas at Stockholm on 29th June 1987 a Convention on Social Security between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the Kingdom of Sweden and a Protocol supplementing the Convention were signed on behalf of those Governments:\nAnd Whereas by Article 35 of the Convention it is provided that the Convention shall enter into force on the first day of the third month following the month in which the instruments of ratification are exchanged:\nAnd Whereas by Article 5 of the Protocol it is provided that the Protocol shall form an integral part of the Convention:\nAnd Whereas the Convention and the Protocol have been ratified by the said Governments and the instruments of ratification were exchanged on 26th February 1988 and accordingly the Convention and the Protocol enter into force on 1st May 1988:\nAnd Whereas by section 143 of the Social Security Act 1975 and section 15 of the Child Benefit Act 1975 it is provided that Her Majesty may by Order in Council make provision for modifying or adapting the said Social Security Act and for modifying the provisions of Part I of the said Child Benefit Act and regulations made under it in their application to cases affected by agreements with other governments providing for reciprocity in matters specified in those sections:\nNow, therefore, Her Majesty, in pursuance of the said section 143, and the said section 15, and of all other powers enabling Her in that behalf, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "Cmnd No. 1/1987."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1975 c. 14; subsection (1A) of section 143 was inserted by section 6(1) of the Social Security Act 1981 (c. 33)."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1975 c. 61; subsection (1A) of section 15 was inserted by section 6(2) of the Social Security Act 1981."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Order modified by EU Regulations 1408/71 and 574/72 to the extent provided by EU Regulation 1408/71, Art. 6 subject to the exceptions prescribed by that article and set out in Arts. 7, 8 and 46(4) of that Regulation"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Order modified (11.4.1988) by Social Security (Reciprocal Agreements) Order 1988 (S.I. 1988/591), arts. 1-3, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Order modified (31.12.1992) by Social Security (Sweden) Order 1992 (S.I. 1992/3213), arts. 1, 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Order modified (13.4.1995) by The Social Security (Reciprocal Agreements) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/767), arts. 1, 2, Schs. 1, 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Order modified (7.10.1996) by The Social Security (Reciprocal Agreements) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/1928), arts. 1, 2, Schs. 1, 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "Order modified (9.4.2001) by Social Security (Reciprocal Agreements) Order 2001 (S.I. 2001/407), arts. 1, 2, Schs. 1, 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C7",
      "text": "Order modified (5.12.2005) by Social Security (Reciprocal Agreements) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/2765), arts. 1, 2, Schs. 1, 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C8",
      "text": "Order modified (6.4.2016) by The Social Security (Reciprocal Agreements) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/158), arts. 1, 2, Schs. 1, 2"
    }
  ],
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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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