{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/supplementary-benefits-act-1976/section-36",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/supplementary-benefits-act-1976/section-36.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1976/71",
  "legislation_title": "Supplementary Benefits Act 1976",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/supplementary-benefits-act-1976",
  "path": "section/36",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "36",
  "heading": "Short title, extent and commencement.",
  "text": "(1) This Act may be cited as the Supplementary Benefits Act 1976.\n(2) The following provisions only of this Act shall extend to Northern Ireland—\nSections . . . 34(1) (definitions of . . . “enactment”), 34(2), 35 and this section, in Schedule 6, paragraphs 1 and 5, in Schedule 7, paragraphs 7 to 13 and Schedule 8 so far as it specifies any enactment extending to Northern Ireland other than section 6 of, and Schedule 4 to, the National Insurance and Supplementary Benefit Act 1973 and any enactment in the Social Security Benefits Act 1975.\n(3) This Act shall come into force on 15th November 1976, but the repeal of any enactment specified in Part II of Schedule 8 to this Act which has not come into force before that date shall not take effect until immediately after that enactment comes into force.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed by Social Security Act 1980 (c. 30), Sch. 5 Pt. II"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1973 c. 42."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1975 c. 11."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1976/71/section/36",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:27:42.570063+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}