{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-and-pensions-act-1999/section-59",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-and-pensions-act-1999/section-59.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1999/30",
  "legislation_title": "Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-and-pensions-act-1999",
  "path": "section/59",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "59",
  "heading": "Couples to make joint claim for allowance.",
  "text": "Schedule 7 (which makes provision in connection with requiring certain couples to make joint claims for an income-based jobseeker’s allowance) shall have effect.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 59 wholly in force at 19.3.2001; s. 59 in force for certain purposes at Royal Assent see s. 89(1)(5); s. 59 in force at 19.3.2001 insofar as not already in force by S.I. 2000/2958, art. 2(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1999/30/section/59",
    "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."
}