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Whereas the revaluation percentages specified in column 3 of the Schedule to the following Order (“the Schedule”) are the percentages which appear to the Secretary of State, in the light of information available to him, to be the percentage increases in prices in Great Britain during the periods specified in column 2 of the Schedule (“the reference periods”)^f1;

And whereas the first period so specified is the reference period (relating to the revaluation period with the earliest commencement date set out in column 1 of the Schedule) beginning at the commencement of the reference period to which the first Order (“the first Order”)^f2 under section 52A of the Social Security Pensions Act 1975^f3 related, and ending on the latest anniversary of the end of that period, to fall before the making of the following Order^f4;

And whereas each reference period (relating to the revaluation period set opposite to it in column 1 of the Schedule) is the reference period beginning on the last anniversary of the commencement of the reference period to which the first Order related to fall before the commencement of the revaluation period to which it relates, and ending on the last anniversary of the end of that reference period to fall before the making of the following Order^f5;