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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/guaranteed-minimum-pensions-increase-order-northern-ireland-2005/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2005/81",
  "legislation_title": "The Guaranteed Minimum Pensions Increase Order (Northern Ireland) 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/guaranteed-minimum-pensions-increase-order-northern-ireland-2005",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order.)\nThis Order, which corresponds to an Order (S.I. 2005/521) made by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions under section 109(4) of the Pension Schemes Act 1993, specifies 3 per cent. as the percentage by which that part of any guaranteed minimum pension attributable to earnings factors for the tax years 1988-1989 to 1996-1997 and payable by contracted-out, defined benefit occupational pension schemes is to be increased.\nThis Order does not impose a charge on business.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2005/81/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:53:57.396392+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."
}