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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/war-pensions-mercantile-marine-amendment-scheme-1997/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/811",
  "legislation_title": "The War Pensions (Mercantile Marine) (Amendment) Scheme 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/war-pensions-mercantile-marine-amendment-scheme-1997",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "PENSIONS\nMade 12th March 1997\nComing into force 7th April 1997\nThe Secretary of State for Social Security, with the consent of the Treasury, in exercise of powers conferred by section 7(3) of the Pensions (Navy, Army, Air Force and Mercantile Marine) Act 1939 and now vested in him and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Scheme:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1939 c. 83."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See The Transfer of Functions (Ministry of Pensions) Order 1953 (S.I. 1953/1198), article 2, Ministry of Social Security Act 1966 (c. 20), section 2, and the Secretary of State for Social Services Order 1968 (S.I. 1968/1699), article 2."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/811/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."
}