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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/divorce-etc-pensions-regulations-northern-ireland-2000/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/divorce-etc-pensions-regulations-northern-ireland-2000/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2000/210",
  "legislation_title": "The Divorce etc. (Pensions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/divorce-etc-pensions-regulations-northern-ireland-2000",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n(a) a reference to an Article by number alone is a reference to the Article so numbered in the Matrimonial Causes (Northern Ireland) Order 1978;\n(b) “the 1989 Order” means the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings (Northern Ireland) Order 1989;\n(c) expressions defined in Article 23A and 27D(3) have the meanings assigned by those Articles;\n(d) 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 1.12.2000 with application in accordance with, see reg. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Article 23A was inserted by paragraph 3 of Schedule 3 to the Welfare Reform and Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.R. 1996 No. 322 to which the most recent relevant amendments were effected by S.R. 1999 No. 88"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2000/210/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:15:12.502051+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."
}