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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-railways-board-alteration-of-pension-schemes-order-1973/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1973/2019",
  "legislation_title": "The British Railways Board (Alteration of Pension Schemes) Order 1973",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-railways-board-alteration-of-pension-schemes-order-1973",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Application of Order",
  "text": "(1) This Order applies to the pension funds which are specified in Schedule 1 to this Order and to any other pension fund maintained by the Board for the provision of pensions or other benefits for, or for the dependants of, persons of any of the following categories, that is to say:—\n(a) persons who are, or have been, employed by the Board or by any subsidiary of theirs.\n(b) persons who are, or have been employed by, or by a subsidiary of, a body whose undertaking immediately before 1st January 1963 formed part of the undertaking of the British Transport Commission.\n(c) persons who were employed by the British Transport Commission.\n(d) persons who were employed by a predecessor body as defined in Article 1 of the British Transport Reorganisation (Pensions of Employees) (No. 3) Order 1962, in connection with a transferred undertaking as defined in that Article.\nand also to the pension fund which is specified in Schedule 2 to this Order.\n(2) Every pension fund to which this Order applies shall be construed and have effect as if the relevant provisions of this Order were terms of, or applicable to, the fund, any other terms thereof, whether expressed or implied, to the contrary notwithstanding.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "(1962 III, p. 3866)"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1973/2019/article/2",
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  "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."
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