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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/divorce-etc-pensions-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1996/296",
  "legislation_title": "The Divorce etc. (Pensions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/divorce-etc-pensions-regulations-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "regulation/2",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n(a) an Article referred to by a number means the Article so numbered in the Matrimonial Causes (Northern Ireland) Order 1978;\n(b) all words and phrases defined in Article 27D(3) and (4) have the meanings assigned by those paragraphs;\n(c) “active member” and “deferred member” have the meanings assigned by Article 121 of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1995.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1995/3213 (N.I. 22)"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/296/regulation/2",
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  "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."
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