{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-eea-states-regulations-northern-ireland-2007/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-eea-states-regulations-northern-ireland-2007/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2007/457",
  "legislation_title": "The Occupational Pension Schemes (EEA States) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-eea-states-regulations-northern-ireland-2007",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "PENSIONS\nMade 31st October 2007\nComing into operation 26th November 2007\nThe Department for Social Development, being a Department designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to personal and occupational pensions, makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by that section.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See Schedule 2 to the European Communities (Designation) (No. 7) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/3328)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c. 68; section 2(2) was amended by section 27(1)(a) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c. 51)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2007/457/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:38:45.321987+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."
}