{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/regulation-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/regulation-26.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2016/128",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2016",
  "path": "regulation/26",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Principal Regulations",
  "text": "In Schedule 1 (interpretation)—\n(a) after the definition of “the 1999 Order” insert—\n““the 2000 Regulations” means the Local Government Pension Scheme (Management and Investment of Funds) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000;”;\n(b) after the definition of “reserve forces service leave” insert—\n““retirement grant” has the meaning given in regulation 19 (calculations) of the 2002 Regulations;”;\n(c) after the definition of “retirement pension” insert—\n““retiring allowance” means a retiring allowance payable under regulation E2 (entitlement to retirement pension and retiring allowance) of the Local Government (Superannuation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992;”;\n(d) in the definition of “revaluation adjustment” for “the consumer prices index of annual inflation published by the Office of National Statistics for the September preceding the end of the Scheme year” substitute “the percentage specified as the change in prices in the relevant Order made under section 9(2) (revaluation) of the 2014 Act”; and\n(e) after the definition of “shared parental leave” insert—\n““standard retirement grant” has the meaning given in regulation D2 (“standard retirement pension” and “standard retirement grant”) of the Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000;”.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 26 in operation at 1.4.2016, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 2000 No.178 as amended by S.R 2001 No. 62, S.R. 2003 No. 433, S.R. 2004 No. 260 and S.R. 2006 No. 400."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.R. 2002 No. 352 as amended by S.R. 2002 No. 353, S.R. 2004 No. 139, S.R. 2005 No. 206, S.R . 274, S.R. 2006 No. 6, S.R. 2006 No. 112, S.R. 2007 No. 152, S.R. 2007 No. 448, S.R. 2007 No. 479, S.R. 2010 No. 164, S.R. 2012 No. 183 and S.R. 2014 No. 189."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.R. 1992 No. 547 as amended by other instruments listed in Schedule M3 to the Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 (S.R. 2000 No. 177)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.R. 2000 No. 177 as amended by S.R. 2001 No. 61, S.R. 2001 No. 63, S.R. 2001 No. 64 and S.R. 2002 No. 115."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2016/128/regulation/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:57:32.774905+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."
}