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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-requisite-surviving-spouses-benefits-etc-order-northern-ireland-1997/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-requisite-surviving-spouses-benefits-etc-order-northern-ireland-1997/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1997/479",
  "legislation_title": "The Judicial Pensions (Requisite Surviving Spouses' Benefits etc) Order (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-requisite-surviving-spouses-benefits-etc-order-northern-ireland-1997",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "PENSIONS\nMade 4th November 1997\nTo be laid before Parliament\nComing into operation 1st December 1997\nThe Lord Chancellor, as the appropriate authority designated by the Treasury for the purposes of Article 72 of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 as having responsibility for judicial pension schemes , in exercise of the powers conferred on him by that Article, hereby makes the following Order—",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1995/3213 (N.I. 22); Article 72 provides that an Order under Article 72 shall be made by the “appropriate authority” which, by virtue of Article 72(2), shall be the Minister of the Crown of government department designated by the Treasury or the Department of Finance and Personnel as having responsibility for the pensions scheme in question"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/479/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."
}