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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2001/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2001/63",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2001",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 (“the principal Regulations”).\nRegulation 3 removes an age restriction whereby a person aged 50 or more can be refused membership of the Scheme by his employer if he had been previously employed by that employer but despite being eligible had elected not to become or to cease being a member of the Scheme.\nRegulation 4 revokes regulation E3 of the principal Regulations which specified the death grant to be paid in respect of pensioners with 10 years' or more membership of the Scheme.\nRegulation 5 substitutes a new regulation E4 in the principal Regulations which specifies that if any pensioner dies within five years of his retirement pension becoming payable a death grant equal to five years' pension less the pension already paid is payable.\nRegulations 6, 7, 8 and 9 make minor consequential amendments.\nRegulations 4 to 9 will have effect from 1st December 2000. This will mean in effect that for pensioners who die on or after 1st December 2000 there is a standardised death grant regardless of whether they have 10 years' or more membership or less than 10 years' membership.\nArticle 14 of the Superannuation (Northern Ireland) Order 1972 confers express powers to make regulations retrospective in effect.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2001/63/note",
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  "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."
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