{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pneumoconiosis-byssinosis-and-miscellaneous-diseases-benefit-amendment-scheme-2006/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pneumoconiosis-byssinosis-and-miscellaneous-diseases-benefit-amendment-scheme-2006/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/638",
  "legislation_title": "The Pneumoconiosis, Byssinosis and Miscellaneous Diseases Benefit (Amendment) Scheme 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pneumoconiosis-byssinosis-and-miscellaneous-diseases-benefit-amendment-scheme-2006",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Scheme may be cited as the Pneumoconiosis, Byssinosis and Miscellaneous Diseases Benefit (Amendment) Scheme 2006 and shall come into force on 6th April 2006.\n(2) “The principal Scheme” means the Pneumoconiosis, Byssinosis and Miscellaneous Diseases Benefit Scheme 1983.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1983/136; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1983/504, 1985/491 and 1997/824."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/638/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:35:02.495783+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."
}