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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-reduction-of-the-earnings-taper-rate-amendment-regulations-2017/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-reduction-of-the-earnings-taper-rate-amendment-regulations-2017/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2017/348",
  "legislation_title": "The Universal Credit (Reduction of the Earnings Taper Rate) Amendment Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-reduction-of-the-earnings-taper-rate-amendment-regulations-2017",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Social Security\nMade 8th March 2017\nLaid before Parliament 13th March 2017\nComing into force in accordance with regulation 1\nThe Secretary of State for Work and Pensions makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 8(3)(a) and 40 of, and paragraph 4(1) and (3)(a) of Schedule 1 to, the Welfare Reform Act 2012.\nIn accordance with section 173(1)(b) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992, the Social Security Advisory Committee has agreed that these Regulations need not be referred to it.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2012 c.5. Section 40 is cited for the meaning of “prescribed”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1992 c.5."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/348/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:13:20.291175+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."
}