{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/war-pensions-act-1921/section-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/war-pensions-act-1921/section-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo5/11-12/49",
  "legislation_title": "War Pensions Act 1921",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/war-pensions-act-1921",
  "path": "section/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Power to commute pensions.",
  "text": "(1) The Minister, on the application of any person in receipt of a pension, may in his discretion and on the prescribed terms and subject to the prescribed conditions, commute any part of the pension by the payment of a capital sum.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) In this section the expression “prescribed” means prescribed by regulations made by the Minister with the approval of the Treasury.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 7(2) repealed (E.W.) (S.) by Theft Act 1968 (c. 60), s. 33(3), Sch. 3 Pt. I and (N.I.) by Theft Act (Northern Ireland) 1969 (c. 16), s. 31(2), Sch. 3 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Functions of Treasury under s. 7 now exercisable by Minister for the Civil Service: S.I. 1968/1656"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/11-12/49/section/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:51:11.819801+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}