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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-reference-scheme-and-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-1",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1997/162",
  "legislation_title": "The Occupational Pension Schemes (Reference Scheme and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-reference-scheme-and-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-1997",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Occupational Pension Schemes (Reference Scheme and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997 and shall come into operation on 6th April 1997.\n(2) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to a Measure of the Assembly.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 1 in operation at 6.4.1997, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1954 c. 33 (N.I.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/162/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:29:35.997740+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."
}