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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/war-pensions-mercantile-marine-amendment-scheme-2001/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/war-pensions-mercantile-marine-amendment-scheme-2001/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/419",
  "legislation_title": "The War Pensions (Mercantile Marine) (Amendment) Scheme 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/war-pensions-mercantile-marine-amendment-scheme-2001",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "PENSIONS\nMade 14th February 2001\nComing into force 9th April 2001\nThe Secretary of State for Social Security, with the consent of the Treasury, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 3, 4 and 7 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. The Act was amended by the Pensions (Mercantile Marine) Act 1942 c. 26."
    },
    {
      "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, the Secretary of State for Social Services Order 1968 (S.I. 1968/1699), article 2, and the Transfer of Functions (Health and Social Security) Order 1988 (S.I. 1988/1843), article 3."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/419/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:03:58.310082+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."
}