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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/supplementary-benefit-housing-requirements-and-resources-amendment-regulations-1987/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1987/17",
  "legislation_title": "The Supplementary Benefit (Housing Requirements and Resources) Amendment Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/supplementary-benefit-housing-requirements-and-resources-amendment-regulations-1987",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "SOCIAL SECURITY\nMade 13th January 1987\nComing into force 26th January 1987\nThe Secretary of State for Social Services, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 2(2) and 34(1)of, and paragraphs 1(2) and 2(1) of Schedule l to the Supplementary Benefits Act 1976 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, with the consent of the Treasury, and after reference to the Social Security Advisory Committee of the proposals other than that which the Committee has agreed should not be referred to it, hereby makes the following regulations of which a draft has, in accordance with section 33(3) of that Act, been laid before Parliament and approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See the definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1976 c. 71, as amended by section 6(1) of and Part I of Schedule 2 to the Social Security Act 1980 (c. 30)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "See Section 33(3) of the Supplementary Benefit Act 1976."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "See Section 10(1) of the Social Security Act 1980, as amended by the Social Security Act 1986 (c. 50), Schedule 10, paragraph 98, and section 61(1)(h) of the latter Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/17/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."
}