{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-polish-forces-scheme-1964/article-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-polish-forces-scheme-1964/article-14.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1964/2007",
  "legislation_title": "The Pensions (Polish Forces) Scheme 1964",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-polish-forces-scheme-1964",
  "path": "article/14",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Revocation of previous Scheme, duration of this Scheme and transitional provisions",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the provisions of this Article, this Scheme shall be substituted for the Pensions (Polish Forces) Scheme 1949 (hereinafter referred to as “the previous Scheme”) which is hereby revoked, and accordingly payments under this Scheme shall be limited to such as fall due for payment before 27th March 1967, being the terminal date of the extended period specified in the Pensions (Polish Forces) Scheme (Amendment and Extension) Order 1962, or before the expiration of such extended period after that date as the Minister, with the consent of the Treasury, may from time to time by order specify.\n(2) Subject to the provisions of this Scheme and of the Royal Warrant as applied by this Scheme and to such conditions as the Minister may determine, payments which were due before the date or, as the case may be, within the extended period mentioned in paragraph (1) of this Article but not drawn before that date or during that extended period may be drawn thereafter.\n(3) Where, after the date or the end of the extended period mentioned in paragraph (1) of this Article, proceedings were pending on a claim such proceedings may be completed and, if the claim is successful, payments may, subject to such conditions as the Minister may determine, be made of any sums which, under the provisions of this Scheme, would have fallen due before that date or, as the case may be, within the said extended period had the claim been then accepted.\n(4) Any thing made or done under or in pursuance of any provision of the previous Scheme shall be deemed to have been made or done under or in pursuance of the corresponding provision of this Scheme, and anything begun under any provision of the previous Scheme may be continued under this Scheme as if begun under this Scheme.\n(5) Any relevant provision of this Scheme or of the Royal Warrant as applied by this Scheme shall, as from the commencing date of this Scheme, apply to any case where the disablement or death of a member of the Polish forces was due to service before the commencing date of this Scheme, whether an award has been made under any previous Scheme made under the Act or not.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "(1949 I, p. 3156)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "(1962 I, p. 508)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "referred to (Scheme cont. to 27.3.2002)",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/662",
      "affecting_title": "The Pensions (Polish Forces) Scheme (Extension) Order 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "referred to (Scheme cont to 27.3.2007)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/671",
      "affecting_title": "The Pensions (Polish Forces) Scheme (Extension) Order 2002"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1964/2007/article/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T00:01:35.784765+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."
}