{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/workmens-compensation-supplementation-amendment-scheme-2008/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/workmens-compensation-supplementation-amendment-scheme-2008/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/721",
  "legislation_title": "The Workmen’s Compensation (Supplementation) (Amendment) Scheme 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/workmens-compensation-supplementation-amendment-scheme-2008",
  "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 2008 and shall come into force on 9th April 2008.\n(2) In this Scheme—\n“lesser incapacity allowance” means the allowance payable in accordance with article 5 of the principal Scheme;\n“the operative date” means 9th April 2008;\n“the principal Scheme” means the Workmen’s Compensation (Supplementation) Scheme 1982.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1982/1489; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1990/2538 and 2007/804."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/721/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:33:34.055894+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."
}