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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Contribution Conditions for Unemployment and Sickness Benefit) Transitional Regulations 1989 and shall come into force on 1st September 1989.
(2) In these Regulations–
 “the 1975 Act” means the Social Security Act 1975;
 “the 1988 Act” means the Social Security Act 1988;
 “day of interruption of employment” and“period of interruption of employment” shall be construed in accordance with section 17 of the 1975 Act.
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Where on or after 1st September 1989 a person has a day of interruption of employment and that day falls within a period of interruption of employment which began before 1st January 1978, Schedule 3 to the 1975 Act shall apply in his case as though the amendments made to it by section 6 of the 1988 Act (contribution conditions for short-term benefits) had not been enacted. 
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security.
Gillian Shephard
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department of Social Security
9th August 1989