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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-unemployment-sickness-and-invalidity-benefit-amendment-no-2-regulations-1989/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1989/1324",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Unemployment, Sickness and Invalidity Benefit) Amendment No. 2 Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-unemployment-sickness-and-invalidity-benefit-amendment-no-2-regulations-1989",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "SOCIAL SECURITY\nMade 28th July 1989\nComing into force 9th October 1989\nWhereas a draft of this instrument was laid before Parliament in accordance with section 29(2) of the Social Security Act 1989 and approved by resolution of each House of Parliament:\nNow, therefore, the Secretary of State for Social Security, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 17(1)(a)(i), (2)(a), (2)(aa)(i), 18(2B) and (4), 20(3) and (4), 20A(2) and (3) and 168(1) of, and Schedule 20 to, the Social Security Act 1975, and section 5(1) and (2) of the Social Security (No. 2) Act 1980 and all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after agreement by the Social Security Advisory Committee that the proposals to make these Regulations, in so far as they are required to be referred to it, should not be so referred, hereby makes the following Regulations:–",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1989 c. 24."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1975 c. 14; section 17 was amended by the Social Security (No. 2) Act 1980 (c. 39), sections 3(1) and 7(6) and the Schedule, the Social Security Act 1981 (c. 33), section 5, the Social Security Act 1988 (c. 7), section 16 and Schedule 4, paragraph 4 and the Social Security Act 1989, sections 10 and 31(1) and Schedule 8; section 18 was amended by the Social Security Act 1986 (c. 50), section 43(1) and the Social Security Act 1989, section 11; section 20 was amended by the Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983 (c. 41), section 25 and Schedule 8, paragraph 1(1) and (3), the Social Security Act 1985 (c. 53), section 10, the Social Security Act 1986, section 43(3)(a), the Employment Act 1988 (c. 19), sections 27(2) and (3) and 33 and Schedule 3, paragraph 7(b) and Schedule 4, the Social Security Act 1989, section 12(1) to (3), and S.I. 1988/487; section 20A was inserted by the Social Security Act 1989, section 12(4); section 168(1) and Schedule 20 are cited because of the meaning ascribed to the word “regulations”; Schedule 20 is also cited because it contains a power to modify the meaning of the word “employment”, added by the Social Security Act 1989, section 12(4)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1980 c. 39; section 5 was amended by the Social Security and Housing Benefits Act 1982 (c. 24), section 48(5) and Schedule 4, paragraph 34(2) and (3), the Social Security Act 1988, section 7 and the Social Security Act 1989, section 9."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "See sections 9 and 10 of the Social Security Act 1980 (c. 30)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1324/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."
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