{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-contracting-out-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-contracting-out-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1996/493",
  "legislation_title": "The Occupational Pension Schemes (Contracting-out) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-contracting-out-regulations-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Time for making an election",
  "text": "An election may be made only after the date of expiry of the notice given under regulation 3 and within 3 months of that date (or such longer period as the Department may in its discretion allow), but nothing in this regulation shall prevent an election from being made after the giving of further notices which comply with the requirements of that regulation.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 in operation at 6.4.1997, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/1996/493",
      "affecting_title": "The Occupational Pension Schemes (Contracting-out) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "nisr/2002/109",
      "affecting_title": "The Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Contracting-out) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/493/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-07T03:33:22.183324+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."
}