{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-requisite-surviving-spouses-benefits-etc-order-1997/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/2667",
  "legislation_title": "The Judicial Pensions (Requisite Surviving Spouses' Benefits etc) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-requisite-surviving-spouses-benefits-etc-order-1997",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "PENSIONS\nMade 4th November 1997\nLaid before Parliament 6th November 1997\nComing into force 1st December 1997\nThe Lord Chancellor (in relation to holders of qualifying judicial office in England and Wales) and the Secretary of State (in relation to holders of qualifying judicial office in Scotland), as the appropriate authorities designated for the purposes of section 72 of the Pensions Act 1995 as having responsibility for judicial pension schemes, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by that section, hereby make the following Order—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1995 c. 26. Section 72 provides that an Order under section 72 shall be made by the “appropriate authority” which, by virtue of section 72(2), shall be the Minister of the Crown or government department designated by the Treasury as having responsibility for the pension scheme in question."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2667/introduction",
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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."
}