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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-unemployment-sickness-and-invalidity-benefit-amendment-regulations-1988/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/689",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Unemployment, Sickness and Invalidity Benefit) Amendment Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-unemployment-sickness-and-invalidity-benefit-amendment-regulations-1988",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "SOCIAL SECURITY\nMade 8th April 1988\nLaid before Parliament 11th April 1988\nComing into force 2nd May 1988\nThe Secretary of State for Social Services, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 17(1)(a)(i) and 168(1) of, and Schedule 20 to, the Social Security Act 1975, and all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after agreement by the Social Security Advisory Committee that 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; section 168(1) and Schedule 20 are cited because of the meaning ascribed to the word“regulations”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See section 10(2)(b) of the Social Security Act 1980 (c. 30)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/689/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."
}