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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-and-pensions-act-1999-commencement-no-4-order-2000/schedule/part-IV",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2000/1047",
  "legislation_title": "The Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999 (Commencement No. 4) Order 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-and-pensions-act-1999-commencement-no-4-order-2000",
  "path": "schedule/part/IV",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "IV",
  "heading": "PROVISIONS BROUGHT INTO FORCE ON 1st DECEMBER 2000",
  "text": "Provision of the Act\nSubject matter\nSection 20\norders in Scotland\nSection 23\nsupply of pension information in connection with divorce etc.\nSection 24\ncharges by pension arrangements in relation to earmarking orders\nSection 26\ninterpretation of Part III\nSection 27 to 46\nsharing of rights under pension arrangements\nSection 47 to 51\nsharing of state scheme rights\nSection 85(5)\ntransitional provisions\nSchedule 5\npension credits: mode of discharge\nSchedule 6\neffect of state pension debits and credits\nSchedule 8, paragraph 33, and section 70 so far as it relates to that paragraph\nminor and consequential amendments—retirement pensions\nSchedule 12, paragraphs 5 to 7, 8(1), (2), (5), (6), 9, 11, 12, 14 to 22, 23 to 27, 28 to 42 and 43 to 63 and section 84(1) so far as it relates to those paragraphs\nconsequential amendments to the Family Law (Scotland) Act 1985, the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992, the Social Security Administration Act 1992, the Pension Schemes Act 1993 and the Pensions Act 1995\nSchedule 13, Part II in respect of the repeals in the Family Law (Scotland) Act 1985, and Part III, and section 88 so far as it relates to those repeals and to that Part III\nrepeals—pension sharing",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1985 c. 37."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1992 c. 4."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1992 c. 5."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1993 c. 48."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "1995 c. 26."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/1047/schedule/part/IV",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:12:36.788047+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."
}