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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/supplementary-benefit-requirements-and-resources-amendment-and-uprating-regulations-1987/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1987/659",
  "legislation_title": "The Supplementary Benefit (Requirements and Resources) Amendment and Uprating Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/supplementary-benefit-requirements-and-resources-amendment-and-uprating-regulations-1987",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "SOCIAL SECURITY\nMade 3rd April 1987\nComing into force\nFor the purpose of regulations 1, 2(c), 3, 7 and 8 6th April 1987\nFor all other purposes 13th April 1987\nThe Secretary of State for Social Services, with the consent of the Treasury, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 1(3), 2(2) and 34(1) of, and paragraphs 1 and 2 of Schedule 1 to the Supplementary Benefits Act 1976 and section 166(2) and (3) of the Social Security Act 1975 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, insofar as they are required to be referred to it, not be so referred, hereby makes the following Regulations of which a draft has, in accordance with section 33(3) of the Supplementary Benefits Act 1976 been laid before Parliament:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See section 33(3) of the Supplementary Benefits Act 1976 (c. 71)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1976 c. 71, as amended by section 6 and Part I of Schedule 2 to the Social Security Act 1980 (c. 30)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1975 c. 14; section 166 was applied by section 33(2) of the Supplementary Benefits Act 1976 (c. 71)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "See section 10 of the Social Security Act 1980 (c. 30)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/659/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."
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