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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-lump-sum-payments-to-widows-regulations-1988/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-lump-sum-payments-to-widows-regulations-1988/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1936",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Pensions (Lump Sum Payments to Widows) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-lump-sum-payments-to-widows-regulations-1988",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "POLICE\nMade 3rd November 1988\nLaid before Parliament 14th November 1988\nComing into force 5th December 1988\nIn exercise of the powers conferred upon 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 66 of and Schedule 6 to the Social Security Act 1986:",
  "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": "1986 c. 50."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1936/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."
}