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  "title": "The Occupational Pension Schemes (Contracting-out) Transitional Regulations 1997",
  "short_title": "Occupational Pension Schemes (Contracting-out) Transitional 1997",
  "long_title": "These Regulations allow employers to start the procedures for obtaining a contracting-out certificate under the Occupational Pension Schemes (Contracting-out) Regulations 1996 (S. I. 1996/1172) on or after 1st January 1997. They do this by enabling employers to give a notice of an intended election to contract out, or to make an election itself, between 1st January 1997 and 5th April 1997.",
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