{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contracting-out-transfer-and-transfer-payment-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2018/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contracting-out-transfer-and-transfer-payment-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2018/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2018/51",
  "legislation_title": "The Contracting-out (Transfer and Transfer Payment) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contracting-out-transfer-and-transfer-payment-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2018",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Pensions\nMade 14th March 2018\nComing into operation 6th April 2018\nThe Department for Communities makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 8C, 16(1)(a) and (3), 33A and 177(2) to (4) of the Pension Schemes (Northern Ireland) Act 1993 and now vested in it.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1993 c. 49; sections 8A to 8D were inserted by Article 133(5) of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/3213 (N.I. 22)) and repealed by paragraph 11 of Schedule 13 to the Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. 5 (N.I.)), but saved for certain purposes, see S.R. 2016 No. 106; section 16(1) was amended by paragraph 2(1) of Schedule 5 to the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000 (c. 4 (N.I.)) and paragraph 18 of Schedule 13 to the Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015; section 16(3) was amended by Article 31(2) of S.R. 2012 No. 124; section 33A was inserted by paragraph 25 of Schedule 13 to the Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See Article 8(b) of S.R. 1999 No. 481 and section 1(7) of the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 5 (N.I.))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2018/51/introduction",
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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."
}