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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-unemployment-sickness-and-invalidity-benefit-amendment-regulations-1995/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1995/2192",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Unemployment, Sickness and Invalidity Benefit) Amendment Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-unemployment-sickness-and-invalidity-benefit-amendment-regulations-1995",
  "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.\nRegulation 2 adds a paragraph (5B) to regulation 7 of those Regulations providing that where a person is on standby in readiness for employment in manning or launching a lifeboat or for performance of duty as a part-time member of a fire brigade, any earnings derived from a retainer payable in respect of the hours when he is on standby shall be disregarded for the purposes of treating a day as a day of unemployment.\nRegulation 3 amends paragraph (b) of regulation 9 of the Social Security (Unemployment, Sickness and Invalidity Benefit) Regulations 1983 by substituting for the reference to a part-time fireman the term “part-time member of a fire brigade”.\nThese Regulations do not impose any costs on business.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/2192/note",
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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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