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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-and-pensions-act-1999/schedule-8/paragraph-23",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1999/30",
  "legislation_title": "Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-and-pensions-act-1999",
  "path": "schedule/8/paragraph/23",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Section 171A (test of incapacity for work) is amended as follows.\n(2) After subsection (2) insert—\n“(2A) In subsection (2)(a) above the reference to such information or evidence as is there mentioned includes information or evidence capable of being used for assisting or encouraging the person in question to obtain work or enhance his prospects of obtaining it.”\n(3) In subsection (3) (requirement to have medical examination), for “a question arises as to” substitute “ it falls to be determined ”.\n(4) After subsection (4) add—\n“(5) All information supplied in pursuance of this section shall be taken for all purposes to be information relating to social security.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 8 para. 23 partly in force at 2.4.2000; Sch. 8 para. 23 in force for certain purposes at Royal Assent see s. 89(5)(c); Sch. 8 para. 23(1)(2)(4) in force insofar as not already in force at 13.12.1999 by S.I. 1999/3309, art. 2(2)(b)"
    }
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      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2012/5",
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    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2012/5",
      "affecting_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2012"
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    {
      "type": "repealed",
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      "affecting_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2012"
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      "type": "repealed",
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    {
      "type": "repealed",
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    {
      "type": "repealed",
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    },
    {
      "type": "repealed",
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      "affecting_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2009"
    },
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2009/24",
      "affecting_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2009"
    },
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2009/24",
      "affecting_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2009"
    },
    {
      "type": "repealed",
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      "affecting_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2009"
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1999/30/schedule/8/paragraph/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:21:37.576921+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."
}