{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-widows-benefit-and-retirement-pensions-amendment-regulations-1987/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1854",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Widow’s Benefit and Retirement Pensions) Amendment Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-widows-benefit-and-retirement-pensions-amendment-regulations-1987",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "SOCIAL SECURITY\nMade 26th October 1987\nLaid before Parliament 27th October 1987\nComing into force 11th April 1988\nThe Secretary of State for Social Services, in exercise of powers conferred upon him by sections 29(5)(b), 39(4), 166(2) and 168(1) of, and Schedule 20 to, the Social Security Act 1975, section 12 of, and paragraph 3 of Schedule 1 to, the Social Security Pensions Act 1975 and section 89(1) of the Social Security Act 1986 and of 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; Schedule 20 is cited both because of the meaning ascribed to the words “prescribed” and “Regulations” and because of the power conferred in the meaning of the expression `child', as inserted by the Child Benefit Act 1975 (c. 61) section 21(1), Schedule 4, paragraph 3."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1975 c. 60."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1986 c. 50."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "See section 10(2)(b) of the Social Security Act 1980 (c. 30)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1854/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."
}