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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contracting-out-transfer-and-transfer-payment-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2018/note",
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  "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": "note",
  "kind": "note",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThese Regulations amend the Contracting-out (Transfer and Transfer Payment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 (“the 1996 Regulations”) and the Occupational Pension Schemes (Schemes that were Contracted-out) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 (“the 2016 Regulations”) to allow contracted-out pension rights to be transferred without members’ consent to schemes which have never been contracted-out of the additional state pension.\nRegulation 2 amends the 1996 Regulations to enable transfers and transfer payments between connected employers to be made to and from schemes that have never been contracted-out, and to specify the circumstances in which such transfers can be made without a member’s consent. It also amends the modified definition of “guaranteed minimum pension” in the Pension Schemes (Northern Ireland) Act 1993 as it applies following a transfer under the 1996 Regulations.\nRegulation 3 amends the definition of “section 5(2B) rights” in the 2016 Regulations to include rights accrued under a salary related scheme that has never been contracted-out, following a transfer in accordance with amended regulation 9 of the 1996 Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2018/51/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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