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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contracting-out-transfer-and-transfer-payment-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contracting-out-transfer-and-transfer-payment-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1996/618",
  "legislation_title": "The Contracting-out (Transfer and Transfer Payment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contracting-out-transfer-and-transfer-payment-regulations-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "PENSIONS\nMade 31st December 1996\nComing into operation 6th April 1997\nThe Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by sections 8C(1)(a), 16(1) to (3) and 177(2) to (4) of the Pension Schemes (Northern Ireland) Act 1993 and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1993 c. 49; section 8C was inserted by Article 133(5) of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/3213 (N.I. 22))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/618/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:31:29.084427+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."
}