{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-administration-regulations-northern-ireland-2009/regulation-73",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-administration-regulations-northern-ireland-2009/regulation-73.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2009/33",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government Pension Scheme (Administration) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-administration-regulations-northern-ireland-2009",
  "path": "regulation/73",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "73",
  "heading": "Interpretation of Part",
  "text": "In this Part—\n“Chapters 4 and 5” means Chapters 4 and 5 of Part 4 of the 1993 Act (transfer values and early leavers)\n“club scheme” means a registered pension scheme which—\n(a)(except where it is established and maintained in the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man) is a registered scheme;\n(b)provides benefits calculated by reference to final pay;\n(c)is open to new participants, or is a closed scheme the trustees or managers of which also provide an open scheme which is a club scheme for new employees of the same employer and of the same grade or level of post as the participants in the closed scheme; and\n(d)complies with reciprocal arrangements for the payment and receipt of transfer values with the schemes made under Article 9 of the Order of 1972.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulations revoked (except reg. 4 for specified purposes, reg. 6 for specified purposes and reg. 11) (1.4.2015) by The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014 (S.R. 2014/189), regs. 1(1), 2(1), Sch. 2 (with regs. 3, 13, 14(1)(d), Sch. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 73 in operation at 1.4.2009, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1972/1073 (N.I. 10); Art. 9 was amended by Art. 34 S.I. 2005/1968 (N.I. 18)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2009/33/regulation/73",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:33:24.030530+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."
}