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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dissolution-etc-pension-protection-fund-regulations-northern-ireland-2006/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dissolution-etc-pension-protection-fund-regulations-northern-ireland-2006/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2006/311",
  "legislation_title": "The Dissolution etc. (Pension Protection Fund) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dissolution-etc-pension-protection-fund-regulations-northern-ireland-2006",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Dissolution etc. (Pension Protection Fund) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 and shall come into operation on 14th August 2006.\n(2) In these Regulations—\n(a) a reference to “the Act” is a reference to the Civil Partnership Act 2004;\n(b) a reference to “Schedule 15” is a reference to Schedule 15 to the Act;\n(c) a reference to a paragraph by number alone is a reference to the paragraph so numbered in Schedule 15;\n(d) “a modified pension attachment order” means an order—\n(i) to which paragraph 26(1) applies which has effect in accordance with paragraph 26(3); or\n(ii) which includes provision made by virtue of paragraph 20(2), as modified by regulation 4 of these Regulations, in relation to entitlement to PPF compensation; and\n(e) expressions defined in paragraphs 25(3) and 32 have the meanings given to them in those paragraphs.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2006/311/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:45:49.352088+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."
}