{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-indexation-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-indexation-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1997/8",
  "legislation_title": "The Occupational Pension Schemes (Indexation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-indexation-regulations-northern-ireland-1997",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Indexation of occupational pensions derived from the acceptance of payments from insurance policies or annuity contracts",
  "text": "Where a person’s accrued rights to a pension payable under an occupational pension scheme to which Article 51 applies, or any part of them, derive from the acceptance by the scheme of a payment from a policy of insurance or annuity contract in respect of rights which were subject to the indexation requirement or to the requirements of Article 158, in any pension scheme of which that person has previously been a member, Article 51(2) and (3) shall apply to such part of that pension as is attributable to those rights as if they were attributable to pensionable service or to payments in respect of employment on or after the appointed day.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in operation at 6.4.1997, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/1997/8",
      "affecting_title": "The Occupational Pension Schemes (Indexation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2005/170",
      "affecting_title": "The Personal and Occupational Pension Schemes (Indexation and Disclosure of Information) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005"
    },
    {
      "type": "reg. 3 renumbered as reg. 3(1)",
      "affecting": "nisr/2005/170",
      "affecting_title": "The Personal and Occupational Pension Schemes (Indexation and Disclosure of Information) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2005/170",
      "affecting_title": "The Personal and Occupational Pension Schemes (Indexation and Disclosure of Information) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "nisr/2005/170",
      "affecting_title": "The Personal and Occupational Pension Schemes (Indexation and Disclosure of Information) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/8/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:31:19.090611+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."
}