{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/divorce-etc-pensions-regulations-1996/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/divorce-etc-pensions-regulations-1996/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1676",
  "legislation_title": "The Divorce etc. (Pensions) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/divorce-etc-pensions-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In these Regulations —\n(a) every reference to a section by number alone means the section so numbered in the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973;\n(b) all words and phrases defined in section 25D(3) and (4) have the meanings assigned by those subsections;\n(c) every reference to a rule by number alone means the rule so numbered in the Family Proceedings Rules 1991;\n(d) “active member”and “deferred member”have the meanings assigned by section 124 of the Pensions Act 1995.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1991/1247, as amended by S.I. 1992/2067 and 1996/1674."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1995 c. 26."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1676/regulation/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."
}