{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-pensions-and-benefit-payments-consequential-etc-provisions-order-northern-ireland-2005/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2005/434",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Partnership (Pensions and Benefit Payments) (Consequential, etc. Provisions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-pensions-and-benefit-payments-consequential-etc-provisions-order-northern-ireland-2005",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "CIVIL PARTNERSHIP\nMade 29th September 2005\nComing into operation in accordance with Article 1(2) and (3)\nTo be laid before Parliament under paragraph 7(3) of the Schedule to the Northern Ireland Act 2000\nThe Department for Social Development in exercise of the powers conferred on it by sections 254(5) and 259 of the Civil Partnership Act 2004, and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2004 c. 33; section 254(5) applies section 171(3), (5) and (6) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c. 7) to the exercise of powers under section 259. See also Article 293 of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/255 (N.I. 1))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2005/434/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:50:33.394478+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."
}