{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-advice-and-assistance-northern-ireland-order-1981/article-21",
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  "legislation": "nisi/1981/228",
  "legislation_title": "Legal Aid, Advice and Assistance (Northern Ireland) Order 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-advice-and-assistance-northern-ireland-order-1981",
  "path": "article/21",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Pension rights of employees",
  "text": "(1) The Law Society shall, with the approval of the Lord Chancellor, make arrangements for the provision of pensions, allowances or gratuities to or in respect of persons employed by the Society whole-time for the purpose of their functions under this Part, and the arrangements may extend, with any necessary adjustments, to persons employed by the Society part-time for that purpose or (whether whole-time or part-time) for that and other purposes.\n(2) The arrangements may include the establishment and administration, by the Law Society or otherwise, of a pension scheme with or without a pension fund.\n(3) If the Lord Chancellor so directs, receipts and expenses of the Law Society attributable to their establishment and administration of a pension scheme under this Article shall, notwithstanding anything in Article 19, be dealt with under the scheme instead of being paid into and out of the legal aid fund.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 2 (to the extent that it remains in operation) repealed (1.4.2015) by Access to Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/435), arts. 1(2), 49(5), Sch. 5 (with transitional provisions and savings in art. 48, Sch. 3); S.R. 2015/194, art. 2, Sch. (with transitional provisions and savings in art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "SI 1982/159"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1981/228/article/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:52:18.959398+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."
}