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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-appeal-tribunals-scotland-amendment-rules-2005/note",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2005/152",
  "legislation_title": "The Pensions Appeal Tribunals (Scotland) (Amendment) Rules 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-appeal-tribunals-scotland-amendment-rules-2005",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Rules)\nThese Rules amend the Pensions Appeal Tribunals (Scotland) Rules 1981 (“the 1981 Rules”) (S.I. 1981/500) to provide for a new route of appeal from the Pensions Appeal Tribunal to the Social Security Commissioners, who for these purposes are to be known as Pensions Appeal Commissioners.\nRules 3 and 4 provide for new definitions consequential on the amendments to the 1981 Rules.\nRules 5 and 10 make consequential amendments.\nRule 6 provides for a notice of the decision to be sent to the parties by the Pensions Appeal Tribunal and for applications for a statement of reasons for the decision.\nRule 7 provides a new procedure for recording and preserving decisions of the Pensions Appeal Tribunal.\nRule 8 provides the procedure for dealing with applications for leave.\nRule 9 revokes expenses provisions relevant to the previous route of appeal.\nRule 11 prescribes circumstances where an extension of a time limit under the 1981 Rules may be granted.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2005/152/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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