{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/workmens-compensation-supplementation-amendment-scheme-1988/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/workmens-compensation-supplementation-amendment-scheme-1988/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/574",
  "legislation_title": "The Workmen’s Compensation (Supplementation) Amendment Scheme 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/workmens-compensation-supplementation-amendment-scheme-1988",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Scheme may be cited as the Workmen’s Compensation (Supplementation) Amendment Scheme 1988 and shall come into force on 13th April 1988.\n(2) This Scheme shall be read as one with the Workmen’s Compensation (Supplementation) Scheme 1982 (“the principal scheme”).\n(3) In this Scheme, “the operative date” means 13th April 1988.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1982/1489; the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1982/1490, 1983/1361, 1984/1118, 1985/1446, 1986/1174, 1987/419 and 429."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/574/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:08:57.847225+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."
}