{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commonwealth-telegraphs-pension-rights-of-former-cable-and-wireless-ltd-staff-regulations-1971/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commonwealth-telegraphs-pension-rights-of-former-cable-and-wireless-ltd-staff-regulations-1971/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1971/60",
  "legislation_title": "The Commonwealth Telegraphs (Pension Rights of Former Cable and Wireless Ltd. Staff) Regulations 1971",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commonwealth-telegraphs-pension-rights-of-former-cable-and-wireless-ltd-staff-regulations-1971",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "These Regulations enable former employees of Cable and Wireless Ltd., who transferred to the Postmaster General's Department on terms that they remained in a pension scheme of the Company, to continue in such a pension scheme on their transfer to the new Post Office, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, or the Department for National Savings, in consequence of the abolition of the Postmaster General's Department by the Post Office Act 1969.\nThe Regulations have retrospective effect under section 6(7) of the Commonwealth Telegraphs Act 1949 as applied by section 49(2) of the Post Office Act 1969.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1971/60/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T22:50:36.090537+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."
}