{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-transfer-values-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-transfer-values-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-15.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1996/619",
  "legislation_title": "The Occupational Pension Schemes (Transfer Values) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-transfer-values-regulations-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "regulation/15",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Cases where normal pension age is earlier than 60",
  "text": "In their application to a member of a scheme whose normal pension age is earlier than 60, section 89(1)(a)(i) (scope of Chapter IV) shall have effect as if the words “at least one year” were omitted and sections 91(8)(a) (ways of taking right to cash equivalent), 94(7)(a) (variation and loss of rights under section 90) and 95(2)(a) and (b) (trustees' duties after exercise of option) shall have effect as if the references therein to normal pension age were references to the age of 60.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 15 in operation at 6.4.1997, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 89(1)(a) was substituted by Article 148(2) of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1995"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/1996/619",
      "affecting_title": "The Occupational Pension Schemes (Transfer Values) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2015/164",
      "affecting_title": "The Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Transfer Values) (Amendment and Revocation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2015/164",
      "affecting_title": "The Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Transfer Values) (Amendment and Revocation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2015/164",
      "affecting_title": "The Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Transfer Values) (Amendment and Revocation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/619/regulation/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:31:28.118011+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."
}