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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-sharing-implementation-and-discharge-of-liability-regulations-2000/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-sharing-implementation-and-discharge-of-liability-regulations-2000/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/1053",
  "legislation_title": "The Pension Sharing (Implementation and Discharge of Liability) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-sharing-implementation-and-discharge-of-liability-regulations-2000",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "PENSIONS\nMade 13th April 2000\nLaid before Parliament 19th April 2000\nComing into force 1 December 2000\nThe Secretary of State for Social Security, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 10(2)(b), 124(1) and 174(2) and (3) of the Pensions Act 1995, sections 33(2)(a) and (4), 34(4)(c), 35(2)(b) and 83(4) and (6) of, and paragraphs 1(2)(b), (3)(c), 3(3)(c), 4(2)(c), (4), 5(b), 6(2)(b), 7(1)(b), (2)(a), (2)(b), (3), (4), (6), 8(1), (2), 9, 10, and 13 of Schedule 5 to, the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after consulting such persons as he considered appropriate, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "Section 124(1) is cited because of the meaning there given to “prescribed\" and “regulations\"."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1995 c. 26."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1999 c. 30."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M4",
      "text": "See sections 120(1) of the Pensions Act 1995 and 83(11) of the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/1053/introduction",
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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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