{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-and-pensions-act-1999/section-70",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-and-pensions-act-1999/section-70.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/70",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "70",
  "heading": "Welfare benefits: miscellaneous amendments.",
  "text": "Schedule 8 (which makes minor and consequential amendments of provisions relating to welfare benefits) shall have effect.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "s. 70 partly in force; s. 70 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 89; s. 70 in force for certain purposes at 13.12.1999, for certain further purposes at 12.1.2000, for certain further purposes at 2.4.2000 and for certain further purposes at 3.4.2000 by S.I. 1999/3309, art. 2(1)(b)(i)(ii)(2)(a)(b); s. 70 in force for certain further purposes at 24.4.2000, for certain further purposes at 1.12.2000 and for certain further purposes at 9.4.2001 by S.I. 2000/1047, art. 2(2)(a)(2)(d), Sch. Pt. I, Pt. IV; s. 70 in force for certain further purposes at 3.11.2000 and for certain further purposes at 6.4.2001 by S.I. 2000/2958, art. 2(3)(e)(f)(4)(5)(6) (subject to arts. 3, 4) (as amended (13.3.2001) by S.I. 2001/933, art. 3); s. 70 in force for certain further purposes at 19.3.2001 by S.I. 2001/933, art. 4(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1999/30/section/70",
    "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."
}