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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/edinburgh-merchant-company-order-confirmation-1996/schedule/paragraph-68",
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  "legislation": "ukla/1996/11",
  "legislation_title": "Edinburgh Merchant Company Order Confirmation 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/edinburgh-merchant-company-order-confirmation-1996",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/68",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "68",
  "heading": "Contributors may alter amount of half-yearly contributions",
  "text": "(1) The contributors, after an investigation by the actuary into the state of the widows' fund, may alter the amount of the half-yearly contributions payable to the widows' fund:\nProvided that such alteration is sanctioned by a resolution passed by a majority of the contributors present and voting at a special general meeting of the contributors called for the purpose.\n(2) Any alterations made by the contributors under this section may be wholly in respect of the half-yearly contributions or may be in the number of contributions or partly by all or any of such methods and in such proportions as the contributors may deem most expedient.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/1996/11/schedule/paragraph/68",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:45:48.524510+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."
}