{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensioners-lump-sum-payments-order-1987/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensioners-lump-sum-payments-order-1987/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1305",
  "legislation_title": "The Pensioners' Lump Sum Payments Order 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensioners-lump-sum-payments-order-1987",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Pensioners' Lump Sum Payments Order 1987 and shall come into force on 7th December 1987.\n(2) In this Order “the Act” means the Pensioners' Payments and Social Security Act 1979.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1305/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:23:03.436220+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}