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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-european-court-of-human-rights-order-1998/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/2768",
  "legislation_title": "The Judicial Pensions (European Court of Human Rights) Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-european-court-of-human-rights-order-1998",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "PENSIONS\nMade 12th November 1998\nLaid before Parliament 13th November 1998\nComing into force 7th December 1998\nThe Lord Chancellor and, in relation to any judicial office whose jurisdiction is exercisable exclusively in relation to Scotland, the Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 18 of, and Schedule 4 to, the Human Rights Act 1998, hereby make the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1998 c. 42; by virtue of paragraph 1 of Schedule 4, the power to make this Order is vested in “the appropriate Minister”. This expression is defined in paragraph 4 of that Schedule as the Secretary of State, in relation to any judicial office whose jurisdiction is exercisable exclusively in relation to Scotland, and, otherwise, as the Lord Chancellor."
    }
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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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