{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/unemployment-benefit-disqualification-period-order-1988/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/unemployment-benefit-disqualification-period-order-1988/note.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": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order amends section 20(1) of the Social Security Act 1975 to extend the maximum period of disqualification for receiving unemployment benefit from 13 weeks to 26 weeks in the circumstances specified in that section (voluntary unemployment etc).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/487/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:09:45.186962+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."
}