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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/war-pensions-mercantile-marine-amendment-scheme-1988/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/war-pensions-mercantile-marine-amendment-scheme-1988/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/639",
  "legislation_title": "The War Pensions (Mercantile Marine) (Amendment) Scheme 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/war-pensions-mercantile-marine-amendment-scheme-1988",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Scheme may be cited as the War Pensions (Mercantile Marine) (Amendment) Scheme 1988 and shall come into force on 11th April 1988.\n(2) This Scheme shall be read as one with the War Pensions (Mercantile Marine) Scheme 1964 (“the principal Scheme”).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1964/2058; the relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1987/585."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/639/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:08:28.565214+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."
}