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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-contracting-out-administration-of-the-teachers-pensions-scheme-order-2003/article-2",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2003/0110457560",
  "legislation_title": "The Contracting Out (Administration of the Teachers' Pensions Scheme) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-contracting-out-administration-of-the-teachers-pensions-scheme-order-2003",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order ‘the functions’ mean the functions conferred on the Secretary of State by regulations made under all or any of—\n(a) sections 9, 12 and 24 of, and Schedule 3 to, the Superannuation Act 1972,\n(b) sections 16(2) to (4) and 130(a) of the Pension Schemes Act 1993, or\n(c) section 172 of the Pensions Act 1995.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c. 11; section 9 was amended by sections 4(1), 8(3) and 11 of the Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1990 (c. 7) and by paragraph 7 of Schedule 8 to, and section 190 of, the Pension Schemes Act 1993 (c. 48); and section 12 was amended by section 10 of the Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1990."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 16(3) was amended by paragraph 28(a) of Schedule 5 to, and section 151 of, the Pensions Act 1995 (c. 26)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Section 172 was amended by S.I. 2001/3649."
    }
  ],
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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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