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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-regulations-northern-ireland-2002/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-regulations-northern-ireland-2002/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2002/352",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-regulations-northern-ireland-2002",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT\nMade 19th November 2002\nComing into operation 1st February 2003\nThe Department of the Environment, in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 9 of, and Schedule 3 to, the Superannuation (Northern Ireland) Order 1972 and now vested in it and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, and after consultation with the Northern Ireland Local Government Association, the Northern Ireland Local Government Officers' Superannuation Committee and such representatives of other persons likely to be affected by the Regulations as appeared to it to be appropriate, hereby makes the following Regulations: –",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1972/1073 (N.I. 10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.R. & O (N.I.) 1973 No. 504 Article 7(1); S.I. 1976/424 (N.I. 6)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2002/352/introduction",
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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."
}