{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-consequential-and-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2015/155",
  "legislation_title": "The Occupational Pension Schemes (Consequential and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-consequential-and-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-2015",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Pensions\nMade 12th March 2015\nComing into operation 6th April 2015\nThe Department for Social Development makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 8C(1)(c), 67(6), 177(2) to (4) and 178(1) of the Pension Schemes (Northern Ireland) Act 1993 and Articles 67(3)(b), 68(2)(e), 89(5)(c)(iii) and 166(2) and (3) of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1995, and now vested in it.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1993 c. 49. Section 8C was inserted by Article 133(5) of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/3213 (N.I. 22)). Section 178(1) was amended by Schedule 5 to that Order"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1995/3213 (N.I. 22). Article 67 was substituted by Article 239 of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/255 (N.I. 1))"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "See Article 8(b) of S.R. 1999 No. 481"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/155/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."
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