{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-northern-ireland-order-1996/article-69",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-northern-ireland-order-1996/article-69.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1996/1919",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-northern-ireland-order-1996",
  "path": "article/69",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "69",
  "heading": "Trustees of occupational pension schemes",
  "text": "(1) An employee has the right not to be subjected to any detriment by any act, or any deliberate failure to act, by his employer done on the ground that, being a trustee of a relevant occupational pension scheme which relates to his employment, the employee performed (or proposed to perform) any functions as such a trustee.\n(2) . . . this Article does not apply where the detriment in question amounts to dismissal (within the meaning of Part XI).\n(2A) This Article applies to an employee who is a director of a company which is a trustee of a relevant occupational pension scheme as it applies to an employee who is a trustee of such a scheme (references to such a trustee being read for this purpose as references to such a director).\n(3) In this Article “relevant occupational pension scheme” means an occupational pension scheme (as defined in section 1 of the 1993 c. 49. Pension Schemes (Northern Ireland) Act 1993) established under a trust.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1999 NI 9"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "1999 NI 11"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1996/1919/article/69",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:41:40.013845+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."
}