{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-unemployment-sickness-and-invalidity-benefit-amendment-regulations-1988/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-unemployment-sickness-and-invalidity-benefit-amendment-regulations-1988/note.json",
  "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": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Social Security (Unemployment, Sickness and Invalidity Benefit) Regulations 1983—\n(a) to provide for a person who has been in receipt of unemployment benefit to be deemed to be available for employment where a doubt has arisen about his availability for employment until the question of his availability has been determined or until he has been requested to supply information within a period and fails to do so within that period, whichever is earlier (regulation 2);\n(b) to change certain references to supplementary benefit to references to income support (regulation 3).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/689/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:07:54.984687+00:00"
  },
  "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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