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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-care-leavers-and-looked-after-children-amendment-regulations-2016/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2016/543",
  "legislation_title": "The Universal Credit (Care Leavers and Looked After Children) Amendment Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-care-leavers-and-looked-after-children-amendment-regulations-2016",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Social Security\nMade 27th April 2016\nLaid before Parliament 3rd May 2016\nComing into force 26th May 2016\nThe Secretary of State for Work and Pensions makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 4(3), 11(4), 40 and 42(3) of the Welfare Reform Act 2012.\nIn accordance with section 173(1) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992, the Social Security Advisory Committee has agreed that these Regulations should not be referred.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2012 c.5. Section 42 is cited for the meaning it gives to “prescribed”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1992 c.5."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/543/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:23:54.497612+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."
}