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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-lump-sum-payments-to-widows-regulations-1987/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-lump-sum-payments-to-widows-regulations-1987/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1462",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Pensions (Lump Sum Payments to Widows) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-lump-sum-payments-to-widows-regulations-1987",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "POLICE\nMade 10th August 1987\nLaid before Parliament 21st August 1987\nComing into force 7th December 1987\nIn exercise of the powers conferred on me by sections 1, 3 and 5 of the Police Pensions Act 1976, and after consultation with the Police Negotiating Board for the United Kingdom, I hereby, with the consent of the Treasury, make the following Regulations, which provide for payments corresponding to payments under section 1(1) of the Pensioners' Payments and Social Security Act 1979 as that Act has effect by virtue of the Pensioners' Lump Sum Payments Order 1987:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1976 c. 35, as amended by section 2(3) of the Police Negotiating Board Act 1980 (c. 10)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Formerly the Minister for the Civil Service: see S.I. 1981/1670."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1979 c. 48."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.I. 1987/1305."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1462/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."
}