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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-contracting-out-transitional-regulations-1997/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/38",
  "legislation_title": "The Occupational Pension Schemes (Contracting-out) Transitional Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-contracting-out-transitional-regulations-1997",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese 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.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/38/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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