{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-regulations-northern-ireland-2000/regulation-D3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-regulations-northern-ireland-2000/regulation-D3.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2000/177",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-regulations-northern-ireland-2000",
  "path": "regulation/D3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "D3",
  "heading": "Statutory pension entitlement",
  "text": "For the purposes of these regulations, a person has a “statutory pension entitlement” if—\n(a) his total period of membership is not less than two years,\n(b) a transfer value from the trustees or managers of a personal pension scheme or self-employed pension arrangement has been and remains credited to the fund in relation to him, or\n(c) neither paragraph (a) nor (b) applies and he—\n(i) has attained state pensionable age; or\n(ii) will attain state pensionable age before the following 6th April.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulations revoked (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, Sch. 2 (with savings and transitional provisions in reg. 3, Sch. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. D3 in operation at 1.8.2000, see reg. A1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2000/177/regulation/D3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:15:32.787353+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."
}