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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-unemployment-sickness-and-invalidity-benefit-amendment-no-2-regulations-1987/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1987/688",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Unemployment, Sickness and Invalidity Benefit) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-unemployment-sickness-and-invalidity-benefit-amendment-no-2-regulations-1987",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "SOCIAL SECURITY\nMade 8th April 1987\nLaid before Parliament 15th April 1987\nComing into force 11th May 1987\nThe Secretary of State for Social Services, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 17(1)(a) 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 the 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; Schedule 20 is cited because of the meaning ascribed to “Regulations”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See the Social Security Act 1980 (c. 30), section 10."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/688/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."
}