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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dissolution-etc-pensions-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2005/484",
  "legislation_title": "The Dissolution etc. (Pensions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dissolution-etc-pensions-regulations-northern-ireland-2005",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n(a) a reference to a section or Schedule by number alone is a reference to the section or Schedule so numbered in the Civil Partnership Act 2004;\n(b) “the Act of 2004” means the Civil Partnership Act 2004;\n(c) “the other civil partner” means the party to the civil partnership who is not the civil partner with pension rights;\n(d) expressions defined in paragraph 11 and 24 of Schedule 15 have the meanings assigned by those paragraphs;\n(e) a reference to a rule by number alone is a reference to the rule so numbered in the Family Proceedings Rules (Northern Ireland) 1996.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in operation at 5.12.2005, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1996 No. 322 to which the most recent relevant amendments were made by S.R. 2000 No. 329 and S.R. 2002 No. 137."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2005/484/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:50:03.350275+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."
}