{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/unemployment-benefit-disqualification-period-order-1988/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/unemployment-benefit-disqualification-period-order-1988/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/487",
  "legislation_title": "The Unemployment Benefit (Disqualification Period) Order 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/unemployment-benefit-disqualification-period-order-1988",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "SOCIAL SECURITY\nLaid before Parliament in draft\nMade 11th March 1988\nComing into force 11th April 1988\nWhereas a draft of this Order was laid before Parliament in accordance with the provisions of section 167(1) of the Social Security Act 1975 and approved by resolution of each House of Parliament;\nNow, therefore, the Secretary of State for Social Services, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 20(1A) of the Social Security Act 1975 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1975 c. 14; section 167(1) was repealed in part by the Social Security Pensions Act 1975 (c. 60), Schedule 5 and was amended by the Social Security Act 1979 (c. 18), section 4(2); the Social Security (Contributions) Act 1981 (c. 1), section 4(5), and by the Social Security Act 1986 (c. 50), sections 43(3), 62(3) and 74(4)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 20(1A) was inserted by the Social Security Act 1986 (c. 50), section 43(3)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/487/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."
}