{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-ports-council-pension-scheme-excess-statutory-surplus-order-2002/article-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2002/346",
  "legislation_title": "The National Ports Council Pension Scheme (Excess Statutory Surplus) Order 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-ports-council-pension-scheme-excess-statutory-surplus-order-2002",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the National Ports Council Pension Scheme (Excess Statutory Surplus) Order 2002 and shall come into force on 13th March 2002.\n(2) In this Order:\n“the Rules” means the Rules of the Scheme;\n“the Scheme” means the National Ports Council Pension Scheme contained in the Schedule to the Deed of Variation dated 2nd September 1980 made between The National Ports Council and National Ports Council Pensions Trustees Limited, as amended by Instruments dated 21st September 1981, 1st November 1982 and 17th March 1992.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "These instruments were all made by the Secretary of State for Transport under paragraph 9(4) of Schedule 5 to the Transport Act 1981 (c. 56)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/346/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:14:51.906309+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."
}