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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/settlement-agreements-automatic-enrolment-description-of-person-order-2012/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2012/212",
  "legislation_title": "The Settlement Agreements (Automatic Enrolment) (Description of Person) Order 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/settlement-agreements-automatic-enrolment-description-of-person-order-2012",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order specifies that, for the purposes of section 58(5)(c) of the Pensions Act 2008 (c.30), a legal executive is a “relevant independent adviser” for the purposes of being able to give advice in relation to compromise agreements under that Act.\nA full impact assessment has not been published for this instrument as it has no impact on the private sector and civil society organisations.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/212/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:43:27.543945+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."
}