{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/war-pensions-mercantile-marine-amendment-scheme-1972/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/war-pensions-mercantile-marine-amendment-scheme-1972/note.json",
  "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": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "This Scheme amends the War Pensions (Mercantile Marine) Scheme 1964 so as to remove a restriction under which no award could be made in respect of the death of a member of the Merchant Navy, occurring more than 7 years after the date of the relevant qualifying injury or end of detention, unless he had been in receipt of a pension in respect of disablement.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1972/1434/note",
    "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."
}