{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/governors-pensions-commutation-order-1956/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/governors-pensions-commutation-order-1956/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1956/1736",
  "legislation_title": "The Governors' Pensions (Commutation) Order 1956",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/governors-pensions-commutation-order-1956",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "Section 5 of the Governors' Pensions Act 1956 empowers the Treasury to specify by order the manner in which the capital sum payable under that section in commutation of part of a pension granted to a Governor of an overseas territory is to be calculated.\nThis Order prescribes that the capital sum shall be calculated by multiplying the yearly amount of that part of the pension which is commuted by eleven and a half.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1956/1736/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T01:15:46.966416+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."
}