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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railway-pensions-protection-and-designation-of-schemes-order-1994/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1994/1432",
  "legislation_title": "The Railway Pensions (Protection and Designation of Schemes) Order 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railway-pensions-protection-and-designation-of-schemes-order-1994",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "TRANSPORT\nMade 27th May 1994\nComing into force 31st May 1994\nWhereas a draft of this Order was laid before Parliament and approved by resolution of each House of Parliament;\nNow, therefore, the Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 143(3) and (4) of, and paragraphs 1(1), 5(b)(iii), 6(1), (2), (4)(b), (6), (8) and (9), 7(1) and (3) and 8(1), (2)(b)(iii), and (6) to (11) of Schedule 11 to, the Railways Act 1993 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1993 c. 43;seethe definitions of “existing scheme” and “prescribed” in paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 11."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/1432/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."
}