{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pneumoconiosis-byssinosis-and-miscellaneous-diseases-benefit-amendment-scheme-1987/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pneumoconiosis-byssinosis-and-miscellaneous-diseases-benefit-amendment-scheme-1987/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/400",
  "legislation_title": "The Pneumoconiosis, Byssinosis and Miscellaneous Diseases Benefit (Amendment) Scheme 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pneumoconiosis-byssinosis-and-miscellaneous-diseases-benefit-amendment-scheme-1987",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, interpretation and commencement",
  "text": "This Scheme, which may be cited as the Pneumoconiosis, Byssinosis and Miscellaneous Diseases Benefit (Amendment) Scheme 1987, shall be read as one with the Pneumoconiosis, Byssinosis and Miscellaneous Diseases Benefit Scheme 1983 (hereinafter referred to as “the principal Scheme”) and shall come into force on 1st April 1987.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1983/136."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/400/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:30:23.688524+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."
}