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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-unemployment-sickness-and-invalidity-benefit-amendment-regulations-1987/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1987/317",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Unemployment, Sickness and Invalidity Benefit) Amendment Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-unemployment-sickness-and-invalidity-benefit-amendment-regulations-1987",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "SOCIAL SECURITY\nMade 3rd March 1987\nLaid before Parliament 3rd March 1987\nComing into force 4th March 1987\nThe Secretary of State for Social Services in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 17(2)(a) and 166 of, and Schedule 20 to, the Social Security Act 1975 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, without having referred any proposals to make these regulations to the Social Security Advisory Committee because it appears to him that by reason of the urgency of the matter it is inexpedient to do so, hereby makes the following Regulations:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See the definition of “Regulations”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1975 c. 14."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "See section 61(1)(a) of the Social Security Act 1986 (c. 50)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/317/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."
}