{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-regulations-northern-ireland-2002/regulation-117",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-regulations-northern-ireland-2002/regulation-117.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": "regulation/117",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "117",
  "heading": "Protection of GMP rights",
  "text": "(1) The power –\n(a) to give directions under regulation 114(2); or\n(b) to recover or retain amounts under regulation 116(2),\nmay not be exercised so as to deprive a person of his guaranteed minimum pension or any widow’s , widower’s or surviving civil partner's guaranteed minimum pension.\n(2) But such a power may be so exercised if the person left his employment –\n(a) because of the offence of treason; or\n(b) because of one or more offences under the Official Secrets Acts 1911 to 1989 for which the former member has been sentenced on the same occasion –\n(i) to a term of imprisonment of at least 10 years, or\n(ii) to two or more consecutive terms amounting in the aggregate to at least 10 years.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulations revoked in part (1.4.2009) by Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009 (S.R. 2009/34), reg. 1(1), Sch. 1 (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 117(1) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(3) of the amending Rule) by Local Government Pension Scheme (Civil Partnership) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 (S.R. 2006/6), regs. 1(2), 3(15)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 117 in operation at 1.2.2003, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1911 c. 28, 1920 c. 25, 1939 c. 121, 1989 c. 6"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2002/352/regulation/117",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:06:03.867007+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."
}