{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-pensions-northern-ireland-order-2005/article-186",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2005/0110490924",
  "legislation_title": "The Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-pensions-northern-ireland-order-2005",
  "path": "article/186",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "186",
  "heading": "Articles 172 to 185: interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Article applies for the purposes of Articles 172 to 185.\n(2) “Document” includes information recorded in any form, and any reference to production of a document, in relation to information recorded otherwise than in a legible form, is to producing a copy of the information—\n(a) in a legible form, or\n(b) in a form from which it can readily be produced in a legible form.\n(3) Where the Board has assumed responsibility for a scheme—\n(a) any reference to the Board’s functions in relation to the scheme includes a reference to the functions which it has by virtue of having assumed responsibility for the scheme, and\n(b) any reference to a trustee, manager, professional adviser or employer in relation to the scheme is to be read as a reference to a person who held that position in relation to the scheme before the Board assumed responsibility for it.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2005/0110490924/article/186",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:24:17.971403+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."
}