{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-police-pensions-consequential-provisions-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-police-pensions-consequential-provisions-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "nidsr/2016/9780337999192",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Pensions (Consequential Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-police-pensions-consequential-provisions-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2016",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Modification of contracting-out provisions",
  "text": "After regulation 9 of the Police Pensions (Consequential Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 insert—\n“Protection of increases in guaranteed minimum pensions after abolition of contracting-out\n9A. (1) Chapter 3 of Part 4 of the 1993 Act (protection for early leavers: protection of increases in guaranteed minimum pensions (“anti-franking”)) is modified as follows.\n(2) In the application of that Chapter to P as a member of the old scheme—\n(a) in section 83(1)(a)(i) (general protection principle), the reference to the time when P ceases to be in pensionable service under a scheme that was, before the second abolition date, a salary-related contracted-out scheme is to be taken as a reference to the time when P ceases to be in pensionable service in relation to the new scheme; and\n(b) subsequent references to “the cessation date” are to be construed accordingly.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nidsr/2016/9780337999192/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:40:52.891826+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."
}