{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-commutation-regulations-1968/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-commutation-regulations-1968/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1968/1163",
  "legislation_title": "The Pensions Commutation Regulations 1968",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-commutation-regulations-1968",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them:—\n“the appropriate Department” means:—\n(a) in the case of a person whose pension was awarded by the Admiralty, the War Office, the Air Ministry or the Ministry of Defence: the Ministry of Defence;\n(b) in the case of a person whose pension was awarded by the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance or the Ministry of Social Security: the Ministry of Social Security;\n(c) in the case of any other person: the Department to which that person belonged;\n“the Board” means the Pensions Commutation Board;\n“the commutation rate” means the amount by which a pension, or a portion of a pension, to be commuted is to be multiplied in order to determine the capital sum to be paid;\n“pension” has the meaning assigned to it by section 2 of the Pensions Commutation Act 1871.\n(2) The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply for the interpretation of these Regulations as it applies for the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1968/1163/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T23:21:41.197891+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."
}