{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-courts-act-northern-ireland-1959/section-128",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-courts-act-northern-ireland-1959/section-128.json",
  "legislation": "apni/1959/25",
  "legislation_title": "County Courts Act (Northern Ireland) 1959",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-courts-act-northern-ireland-1959",
  "path": "section/128",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "128",
  "heading": "Persons serving again after retirement.",
  "text": "Where any person after retirement resumes. . . service, that retirement shall be left out of account for all the purposes of sections one hundred and twenty-one to one hundred and thirty-three except that—\n(a) if a lump sum was granted on that retirement without any contribution being made, then unless that person on resumption of. . . service, or within three months of. . . marrying or forming a civil partnership while again serving, refunds [ to the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom] by way of contribution one-half of the lump sum, no pension shall be granted to any widow, widower, surviving civil partner or child of that person; and\n(b) any lump sum granted on that retirement, less any refund, shall be set off against any lump sum to be granted in respect of that person's service.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1991 NI 24"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "SI 2005/3325"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "1980 NI 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1959/25/section/128",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:33:09.633949+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."
}