{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-appeal-tribunals-posthumous-appeals-order-1980/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-appeal-tribunals-posthumous-appeals-order-1980/introduction.json",
  "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": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "PENSIONS\nMade 28th July 1980\nLaid before Parliament 5th August 1980\nComing into Operation 1st September 1980\nAt the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 28th day of July 1980\nPresent,\nThe Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council\nWHEREAS Her Majesty deems it expedient to provide for appeals under the provisions of the Pensions Appeal Tribunals Act 1943 in respect of claims for benefit under instruments mentioned in that Act to be brought or continued by another person after the death of the claimant and to do so by Order in Council under section 16(1) and (2) of the Social Security Act 1980:\nNOW, THEREFORE, Her Majesty, in the exercise of the powers conferred by the said section 16 and of all other powers enabling Her in that behalf, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "this Act was amended and modified by the Pensions Appeal Tribunals Act 1949 (c. 12); subsection (3A) was added to section 1 by the Pensions Appeal Tribunals Act (Modification) Order 1947 (S.I. 1947/1143) and sections 5, 6 and 12 were amended by s. 23 of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970 (c. 44)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1980/1082/introduction",
    "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."
}