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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-equality-age-regulations-northern-ireland-2006/schedule-1/paragraph-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-equality-age-regulations-northern-ireland-2006/schedule-1/paragraph-7.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2006/261",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment Equality (Age) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-equality-age-regulations-northern-ireland-2006",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Admission to schemes",
  "text": "In relation to admission to a scheme—\n(a) a minimum or maximum age for admission including different ages for admission for different groups or categories of worker;\n(b) a minimum level of pensionable pay for admission where that minimum—\n(i) does not exceed one and a half times the lower earnings limit;\n(ii) does not exceed an amount calculated by reference to the lower earnings limit where the aim is more or less to reflect the amount of the basic state retirement pension, or\n(iii) does not exceed an amount calculated more or less to reflect the amount of the basic state retirement pension plus the additional state retirement pension.\n; or\n(iv) does not exceed an amount calculated more or less to reflect the amount of the state pension under Part 1 of the Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 7(b) substituted (1.12.2006) by The Employment Equality (Age) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 (S.R. 2006/453), regs. 1(1), 2(3)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 7(b)(iv) and preceding semi-colon and word inserted (6.4.2016) by The Pensions (2015 Act) (Consequential, Supplementary and Incidental Amendments) Order (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/25), arts. 1, 3(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 7 in operation at 1.10.2006, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2006/261/schedule/1/paragraph/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:46:18.446670+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."
}