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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/guaranteed-minimum-pensions-increase-order-northern-ireland-2021/article-1",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2021/48",
  "legislation_title": "The Guaranteed Minimum Pensions Increase Order (Northern Ireland) 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/guaranteed-minimum-pensions-increase-order-northern-ireland-2021",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Guaranteed Minimum Pensions Increase Order (Northern Ireland) 2021 and shall come into operation on 6th April 2021.\n(2) In this Order “relevant period” has the same meaning as in section 109(3A) of the Pension Schemes Act 1993.\n(3) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to this Order as it applies to an Act of the Assembly.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 109(3A) was inserted by section 55(b) of the Pensions Act 1995 (c. 26) and amended by paragraph 40 of Schedule 13 to the Pensions Act 2014 (c. 19)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1954 c. 33 (N.I.)"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2021/48/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:40:05.724782+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."
}