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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-and-occupational-pension-schemes-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-1989/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-and-occupational-pension-schemes-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-1989/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/500",
  "legislation_title": "The Personal and Occupational Pension Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-and-occupational-pension-schemes-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-1989",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "PENSIONS\nMade 15th March 1989\nLaid before Parliament 16th March 1989\nComing into force 6th April 1989\nThe Secretary of State for Social Security, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 168(1) of, and Schedule 20 to, the Social Security Act 1975, section 52 of, and paragraph 6 of Schedule 2 to, the Social Security Pensions Act 1975, and sections 1(9), 17(1) and 84(1) of the Social Security Act 1986 and all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after considering the report of the Occupational Pensions Board on the proposals submitted to them, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1975 c. 14. See definitions of “prescribe” and “regulations” in Schedule 20. Section 168(1) applies, by virtue of section 66(2) of the Social Security Pensions Act 1975 (c. 60), to the exercise of certain powers conferred by that Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1975 c. 60. Paragraph 6 of Schedule 2 was amended by the Social Security Act 1980 (c. 30), section 3(12)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1986 (c. 50). See definitions of “modifications” and “regulations” in section 84(1)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "See section 61(2) and (3) of the Social Security Pensions Act 1975; section 61(2) was amended by the Social Security Act 1986, Schedule 10, paragraph 94, and there are other amendments not relevant to these Regulations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/500/introduction",
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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."
}