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  "title": "The Pensions Increase (Review) Order 1981",
  "short_title": "Pensions Increase (Review) 1981",
  "long_title": "Under section 59 of the Social Security Pensions Act 1975 as amended by section 11 of the Social Security Act 1979 and as modified by section 59A of the 1975 Act (introduced by section 11(4) of the 1979 Act) the Minister for the Civil Service is required to provide by order for the increase in the rates of public service pensions. The increase is the percentage (or in some circumstances a fraction of the percentage) by which the Secretary of State for Social Services has, by directions given under the provisions of section 23 of the Social Security Pensions Act 1975, increased the sums referred to in section 23(1)(b) of the 1975 Act. These are the sums which are the additional components in the rates of long term benefits namely the additional pension entitlements accruing to employees in respect of their earnings after 5th April 1978.",
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