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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contracting-out-transfer-and-transfer-payment-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/schedule-1/paragraph-6",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1996/618",
  "legislation_title": "The Contracting-out (Transfer and Transfer Payment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996",
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  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The date of commencement of the pension the liability for which is transferred—\n(a) if payable to the person who has become entitled to it, must be the date from which liability for payment is assumed by the receiving scheme, and\n(b) if payable to his widow or her widower, must be the same as it would have been under the provisions of the transferring scheme,\nand the receiving scheme must contain the same provision (if any) for suspension and forfeiture of that pension as for guaranteed minimum pensions provided by the receiving scheme in accordance with section 9 or (as the case may be) 13.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
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      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 6 in operation at 6.4.1997, see reg. 1(1)"
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/618/schedule/1/paragraph/6",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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