{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-commutation-act-1871/section-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-commutation-act-1871/section-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/34-35/36",
  "legislation_title": "Pensions Commutation Act 1871",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-commutation-act-1871",
  "path": "section/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "†Power to Treasury to make regulations.",
  "text": "Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Minister for the Civil Service may from time to time make, alter, or revoke regulations as to the following matters:—\n(1) The rules according to which applications for commutation are to be made or, . . . withdrawn:\n(2) The tables according to which the duration of life of applicants for commutation is to be calculated for the purposes of this Act:\n(3) The terms upon which pensions are to be commuted, and the cases in which commutation is to be refused.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of S.I. 1968/1656, arts. 2(1)(c), 3(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words repealed by Pensions Commutation Act 1984 (c. 7, SIF 101A:1), s. 2(2)(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 7 has effect as if any reference to the Minister for the Civil Service were a reference to the Treasury: S.I. 1981/1670, arts. 2(1)(c), 3(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 7 amended (transfer of functions) by Pensions Commutation Act 1984 (c. 7, SIF 101A:1), s. 2(1)(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/34-35/36/section/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:53:42.663250+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}