{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hybrid-schemes-quality-requirements-rules-northern-ireland-2012/article-2",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2012/267",
  "legislation_title": "The Hybrid Schemes Quality Requirements Rules (Northern Ireland) 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hybrid-schemes-quality-requirements-rules-northern-ireland-2012",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Application: general",
  "text": "(1) These Rules apply to any hybrid scheme which falls within any of the descriptions specified in rules rules 4 to 8.\n(2) Any scheme of a description specified in a particular rule is referred to in that rule as “a relevant scheme”.\n(3) In relation to each description of a relevant scheme, rules 4 to 8 set out—\n(a) how section 24(1) is to be applied in order to determine whether a particular scheme satisfies the quality requirements in relation to a jobholder, and\n(b) if any such requirements are subject to prescribed modifications in their application to such a scheme.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 2(1) substituted (1.10.2016) by The Hybrid Schemes Quality Requirements (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/315), rules 1, 2(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in rule 2(3) substituted (1.10.2016) by The Hybrid Schemes Quality Requirements (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/315), rules 1, 2(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2012/267/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:14:57.376666+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."
}