{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-descriptions-of-service-order-2010/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-descriptions-of-service-order-2010/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2010/899",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Pensions (Descriptions of Service) Order 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-descriptions-of-service-order-2010",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Police, England And Wales\nPensions, England And Wales\nMade 21st March 2010\nLaid before Parliament 23rd March 2010\nComing into force 15th April 2010\nThe Secretary of State makes the following Order in exercise of the power conferred by section 11A(1) of the Police Pensions Act 1976.\nIn accordance with section 63(3) of the Police Act 1996, the Secretary of State supplied a draft of this Order to the Police Advisory Board for England and Wales and took their representations into consideration before the Order was made.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1976 c. 35. Section 11A was inserted by section 10(2) of the Policing and Crime Act 2009 (c. 26), and extends to England and Wales."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1996 c. 16. Section 63(3) was amended by section 10(3) of the Policing and Crime Act 2009 so as to apply to an order made under section 11A of the Police Pensions Act 1976."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/899/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:46:34.238366+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."
}