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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-unemployment-sickness-and-invalidity-benefit-amendment-no-3-regulations-1988/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-unemployment-sickness-and-invalidity-benefit-amendment-no-3-regulations-1988/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/2119",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Unemployment, Sickness and Invalidity Benefit) Amendment (No. 3) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-unemployment-sickness-and-invalidity-benefit-amendment-no-3-regulations-1988",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "SOCIAL SECURITY\nMade 5th December 1988\nLaid before Parliament 9th December 1988\nComing into force 1st January 1989\nThe Secretary of State for Social Security, in exercise of powers conferred by section 5(2) and (3) of the Social Security (No. 2) Act 1980 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, by this instrument which contains only provisions consequential upon, and is made before the end of a period of 12 months from the commencement of, section 7 of the Social Security Act 1988 hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1980 c. 39; section 5 was amended by section 7 of the Social Security Act 1988 (c. 7); subsection (3) is cited because of the meaning ascribed to the word “regulations”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See section 10(1) of the Social Security Act 1980 (c. 30) and section 61(5)(b) of the Social Security Act 1986 (c. 50)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/2119/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."
}