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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-unemployment-sickness-and-invalidity-benefit-regulations-1983/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1983/1598",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Unemployment, Sickness and Invalidity Benefit) Regulations 1983",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-unemployment-sickness-and-invalidity-benefit-regulations-1983",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "SOCIAL SECURITY\nMade 27th October 1983\nLaid before Parliament 7th November 1983\nComing into Operation 28th November 1983\nThe Secretary of State for Social Services, in the exercise of powers conferred upon him by sections 15(6), 16(1), 17(1)(a) and (e), (2), (4) and (5), 20(2) and (3), 33(2) and (3), 50A(2), 79(3) and (4) and 131 of the Social Security Act 1975 and section 2(1) of, and paragraphs 3 and 9 of Schedule 3 to, the Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1975 and section 5(1) and (2) of the Social Security (No. 2) Act 1980 and section 39(5) of the Social Security and Housing Benefits Act 1982 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf and for the purposes only of consolidating the regulations hereby revoked, hereby makes the following regulations, which are not subject to the requirement of prior reference to the Social Security Advisory Committee:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Sections 15(6) and 50A were inserted in the Act by the Social Security and Housing Benefits Act 1982 (c.24), Schedule 4, paragraph 10 and by section 39(4), respectively, and subsections (4) and (5) of section 17 were inserted by the Social Security Act 1981 (c.33), section 5."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See the Social Security Act 1980 (c.30), Schedule 3, paragraph 20 and section 5(5) of the Social Security (No. 2) Act 1980."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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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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