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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/war-pensions-mercantile-marine-amendment-scheme-1972/article-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1972/1434",
  "legislation_title": "The War Pensions (Mercantile Marine) (Amendment) Scheme 1972",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/war-pensions-mercantile-marine-amendment-scheme-1972",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, interpretation and commencement",
  "text": "This Scheme, which may be cited as the War Pensions (Mercantile Marine) (Amendment) Scheme 1972, amends the War Pensions (Mercantile Marine) Scheme 1964 (hereinafter referred to as “the principal Scheme”), and shall come into operation on 2nd October 1972.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "(1964 III, p. 5149)."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1972/1434/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T22:26:24.066919+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."
}