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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-pension-amendment-regulations-2005/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-pension-amendment-regulations-2005/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/887",
  "legislation_title": "The Parliamentary Pension (Amendment) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-pension-amendment-regulations-2005",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations make various amendments to the Parliamentary Pensions (Consolidation and Amendment) Regulations 1993 (the “Principal Regulations”).\nRegulations 2, 8 to 13 and 15 to 23 introduce provisions for surviving civil partners and surviving partners who were neither married nor a civil partner and amend the Principal Regulations to make pensions to adult survivors payable for life.\nRegulations 3 and 4 increase the contribution rate for participants with a 1/40th accrual rate from 9 per cent to 10 per cent with effect from 1st April 2004.\nRegulations 5 to 7 and 24 amend the early retirement provisions.\nRegulation 14 introduces provisions that reduce the adult survivor’s pension where the adult survivor is more than 12 years younger than the participant.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1993/3253, amended by S.I. 1995/2867, S.I. 1996/2406, S.I. 1999/2100, S.I. 2001/2649, S.I. 2002/1807, S.I. 2002/1887 and S.I. 2004/2416."
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/887/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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