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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-appeal-tribunals-posthumous-appeals-order-1980/article-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1980/1082",
  "legislation_title": "The Pensions Appeal Tribunals (Posthumous Appeals) Order 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-appeal-tribunals-posthumous-appeals-order-1980",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order, which may be called the Pensions Appeal Tribunals (Posthumous Appeals) Order 1980, shall come into operation on 1st September 1980 immediately after the Naval, Military and Air Forces etc. (Disablement and Death) Service Pensions Amendment Order 1980 and the Personal Injuries (Civilians) Amendment Scheme 1980 come into operation.\n(2) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“the Act” means the Pensions Appeal Tribunals Act 1943;\n“the Civilians Scheme” means the Personal Injuries (Civilians) Scheme 1976\n“the designated person” has the meaning assigned to it in article 67A(1)(b) and (2) of the Naval, Military and Air Forces etc. (Disablement and Death) Service Pensions Order 1978, or, as the case may be, article 76A(1)(b) and (2) of the Civilians Scheme;\n“the Pensions Order” means the Naval, Military and Air Forces etc. (Disablement and Death) Service Pensions Order 1978;\n“the President of the Pensions Appeal Tribunals” means the person appointed by the Lord Chancellor to be President of the Pensions Appeal Tribunals;\n“the Secretary of State” means the Secretary of State for Social Services;\nand other expressions have the same meaning as in the Act.\n(3) For the purposes of this Order a person shall be treated as not having been notified of a decision (or given notification of it) unless notice of the decision has been received by him, and for that purpose unless the Secretary of State is satisfied that such notice has not in fact been so received, such notice shall be treated as so received in due course of post if it was sent by post to that person and addressed to him at his ordinary or last known address.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": ", as amended by S.I. 1976/1167; 1977/404,1977/1640 ; 1978/384, 1978/1426; 1979/270 , 1979/1232; 1980/1102."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": ", as amended by S.I. 1978/1902; 1979/13 and 1979/1312 ; and 1980/1080 ."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/3506",
      "affecting_title": "The Transfer of Functions (War Pensions etc.) Order 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "subst",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/408",
      "affecting_title": "The Pensions Appeal Tribunals (Posthumous Appeals) Amendment Order 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/245",
      "affecting_title": "The Pensions Appeal Tribunals (Posthumous Appeals) (Amendment) Order 2005"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2008/2683",
      "affecting_title": "The Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Order 2008"
    },
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2008/2683",
      "affecting_title": "The Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Order 2008"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2008/2683",
      "affecting_title": "The Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Order 2008"
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1980/1082/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T18:57:06.226248+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."
}