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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/superannuation-act-1972/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/superannuation-act-1972/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1972/11",
  "legislation_title": "Superannuation Act 1972",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/superannuation-act-1972",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to amend the law relating to pensions and other similar benefits payable to or in respect of persons in certain employment; to provide for distribution without proof of title of certain sums due to or in respect of certain deceased persons; to abolish the Civil Service Committee for Northern Ireland; to repeal section 6 of the Appropriation Act 1957; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.\n[1st March 1972]",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Power to modify conferred by Social Security Act 1986 (c. 50, SIF 113:1), s. 17(2)(3)(c)Power to modify conferred (7.2.1994) by Pensions Schemes Act 1993 (c. 48), ss. 188-190, Sch. 6 Pt. II para. 17(3)(C); S.I. 1994/86, art. 2Act modified (E.W.S.) (1.12.1993) by S.I. 1993/2714, regs. 9(4)(a), 10."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Act excluded (S.) (1.2.2000) by 2000 asp 1, s. 10(6), Sch. 2 para. 8(4)(a); S.S.I. 2000/10, art. 2(2)Act excluded (S.) (8.9.2000) by 2000 asp 10, s. 29, Sch. 4 para. 6(4)(a) (with s. 32); S.S.I. 2000/312, art. 2Act: for any reference to the Education Assets Board there is substituted (1.10.1998) a reference to the Education Transfer Council by virtue of 1998 c. 31, s. 136; S.I. 1998/2212, art. 2(1), Sch. 1 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Act excluded (11.11.2010) by Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010 (c. 25), ss. 4(5), 52 (with s. 1); S.I. 2010/2703, art. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act not in force at Royal Assent see section 30(4); Act wholly in force at 25.3.1972."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1972/11/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."
}