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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lands-tribunal-superannuation-amendment-order-northern-ireland-1998/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1998/180",
  "legislation_title": "Lands Tribunal (Superannuation) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lands-tribunal-superannuation-amendment-order-northern-ireland-1998",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order.)\nThis Order amends the Lands Tribunal (Salaries and Superannuation) Order (Northern Ireland) 1964 so as to allow the Department of Finance and Personnel to grant a member of the Lands Tribunal for Northern Ireland a short-service pension after 2 years' instead of 5 years' service. It also widens the circumstances in which a short service pension may be granted (Article 2(2) and (3)(a)). There are consequential changes to the rules for calculating sums payable by way of pension (Article 2(3)(b)).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1998/180/note",
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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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