{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/supplementary-benefit-uprating-regulations-1987/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/supplementary-benefit-uprating-regulations-1987/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/49",
  "legislation_title": "The Supplementary Benefit Uprating Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/supplementary-benefit-uprating-regulations-1987",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "SOCIAL SECURITY\nMade 20th January 1987\nComing into force 6th April 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 paragraph 2(1) and (4) of Schedule 1 to the Supplementary Benefits Act 1976 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, with the consent of the Treasury and, so far as is required , after agreement by the Social Security Advisory Committee that the proposals to make these regulations 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 Benefits Act 1976."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "These requirements apply only to regulation 2(2)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "See section 61(1)(b) of the Social Security Act 1986 (c. 50)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/49/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."
}