{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/naval-military-and-air-forces-etc-modification-of-enactments-and-other-instruments-order-1978/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/naval-military-and-air-forces-etc-modification-of-enactments-and-other-instruments-order-1978/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1978/1526",
  "legislation_title": "The Naval, Military and Air Forces etc. (Modification of Enactments and other Instruments) Order 1978",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/naval-military-and-air-forces-etc-modification-of-enactments-and-other-instruments-order-1978",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Modifications in enactments and instruments",
  "text": "(1) Wherever in any enactment or instrument specified in the Schedule hereto there is a reference—\n(a) to an instrument revoked by the Pre-Consolidation Order or by the Consolidation; or\n(b) to a pension or other benefit for which, immediately before the date on which the Consolidation came into operation, provision was made by such revoked instrument; or\n(c) to a “war pensions instrument”;\nsuch reference shall, save in so far as may not be appropriate in any particular case, be modified in accordance with the provisions of the next succeeding paragraph and any such reference in any other enactment or instrument shall likewise be so modified.\n(2) Any such reference shall be construed as if it included—\n(a) in the case of a reference specified in subparagraph (a) or (c) of paragraph (1) of this article, a reference to the Consolidation (or, as the case may be, to the corresponding provision thereof);\n(b) in the case of a reference specified in subparagraph (b) of that paragraph, a reference to a pension or other benefit under the Consolidation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1978/1526/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T19:27:47.619140+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."
}