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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-act-2009/section-49",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-act-2009/section-49.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2009/24",
  "legislation_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-act-2009",
  "path": "section/49",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "49",
  "heading": "Regulations and orders: control by Parliament or other legislature",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may not make a statutory instrument containing regulations under section 41 or an order under section 48(1) unless a draft of the instrument has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, each House of Parliament.\n(2) The Scottish Ministers may not make a statutory instrument containing regulations under section 41 or an order under section 48(5) unless a draft of the instrument has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, the Scottish Parliament.\n(3) The Welsh Ministers may not make a statutory instrument containing regulations under section 41 or an order under section 48(1) unless a draft of the instrument has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, the National Assembly for Wales.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/24/section/49",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:10:45.980880+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."
}