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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/church-of-england-pensions-amendment-regulations-1992/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1992/1748",
  "legislation_title": "Church of England Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/church-of-england-pensions-amendment-regulations-1992",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Church of England’s pension scheme for those in the stipendiary ministry. Regulation 2 applies the deemed approval procedure, which already applies to the Regulations themselves, to the Rules made by the Church of England Pensions Board providing for lump sum payments. Regulation 3 extends the Board’s power to suspend or reduce a disability pension where the pensioner takes alternative employment, regulation 4 recognises the new retiring age of 65 years for women first beginning pensionable service on or after 1st January 1992, and regulation 5 abolishes the qualifying period of pensionable service in relation to the payment of pensions to widows, widowers and children.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/1748/note",
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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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