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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-parliamentary-united-kingdom-representatives-pensions-additional-voluntary-contributions-scheme-amendment-order-2004/article-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2004/2418",
  "legislation_title": "The European Parliamentary (United Kingdom Representatives) Pensions (Additional Voluntary Contributions Scheme) (Amendment) Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-parliamentary-united-kingdom-representatives-pensions-additional-voluntary-contributions-scheme-amendment-order-2004",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Purchase of pensions",
  "text": "In article 9 of the AVC Order—\n(a) there shall be deleted from the heading “on retirement”; and\n(b) in paragraph (1), for “At or before the date of his retirement” there shall be substituted “At least three months before the date on which he would like a pension to come into payment,”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/2418/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:18:28.971107+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."
}