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  "title": "29 U.S.C. 1166 (who must give notice of a qualifying event, and by when)",
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      "text": "Section 1166 requires the employer of an employee under a plan to notify the administrator of a qualifying event described in paragraph (1), (2), (4) or (6) of section 1163 within 30 days of the date of the qualifying event, or in the case of a group health plan which is a multiemployer plan such longer period as may be provided in the terms of the plan."
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