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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contracting-out-protected-rights-and-safeguarded-rights-transfer-payment-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2005/85",
  "legislation_title": "The Contracting-out, Protected Rights and Safeguarded Rights (Transfer Payment) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contracting-out-protected-rights-and-safeguarded-rights-transfer-payment-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2005",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations.)\nThese Regulations amend the Protected Rights (Transfer Payment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 (“the Protected Rights Regulations”), the Contracting-out (Transfer and Transfer Payment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 (“the Contracting-out Transfer Regulations”) and the Pension Sharing (Pension Credit Benefit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 (“the Pension Credit Benefit Regulations”).\nRegulation 1 provides for citation and commencement.\nRegulation 2 amends the Protected Rights Regulations to insert a definition of “overseas arrangement” and remove the permanent emigration requirement in relation to transfer payments to overseas schemes or arrangements in respect of protected rights.\nRegulation 3 amends the Contracting-out Transfer Regulations so that regulation 6 of those Regulations applies in respect of transfer payments made to an overseas arrangement and to remove the permanent emigration requirement in relation to transfer payments to overseas schemes or arrangements in respect of guaranteed minimum pensions and rights accrued after 6th April 1997 under a scheme contracted out by virtue of section 5(2B) of the Pension Schemes (Northern Ireland) Act 1993.\nRegulation 4 amends the Pension Credit Benefit Regulations to remove the permanent emigration requirement in relation to transfer payments to overseas schemes or arrangements in respect of safeguarded rights.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2005/85/note",
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  "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."
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