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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/supplementary-benefit-single-payments-amendment-regulations-1987/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/supplementary-benefit-single-payments-amendment-regulations-1987/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/36",
  "legislation_title": "The Supplementary Benefit (Single Payments) Amendment Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/supplementary-benefit-single-payments-amendment-regulations-1987",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "SOCIAL SECURITY\nMade 20th January 1987\nLaid before Parliament 20th January 1987\nComing into force\nRegulations 1 and 3 21st January 1987\nRegulation 2 26th January 1987\nThe Secretary of State for Social Services, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 3, 14(2)(a) and 34(1) of the Supplementary Benefits Act 1976, section 166(2) and (3) of the Social Security Act 1975 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, without having referred any proposals on the matter to the Social Security Advisory Committee since it appears to him that by reason of urgency it is inexpedient to do so, hereby makes the following Regulations:—",
  "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": "1975 c. 14; this section was applied by section 33(2) of the Supplementary Benefits Act 1976."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "See section 61(1)(a) of the Social Security Act 1986 (c. 50)."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/36/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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