{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/church-of-england-pensions-regulations-1988/schedule-1/paragraph-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/2256",
  "legislation_title": "The Church of England Pensions Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/church-of-england-pensions-regulations-1988",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Where the qualifying period of pensionable service performed by a scheme member is less than 37 years, the rate of pension in respect of the whole-time service shall be calculated by adding together for each complete year of pensionable whole-time service 1/37th of the pension to which he would have been entitled under the preceding provisions of this Schedule if he had performed 37 years' whole-time pensionable service; and where the whole-time pensionable service comprises a broken part of a year the rate shall be increased by adding, in respect of each complete month in the broken part, 1/12th of the amount payable in respect of a complete year.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2011/1717",
      "affecting_title": "The Church of England Pensions (Sodor and Man) (Amendment) Regulations 2011"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/2256/schedule/1/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:52:04.951761+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."
}