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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-schemes-categories-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2005/413",
  "legislation_title": "The Pension Schemes (Categories) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-schemes-categories-regulations-northern-ireland-2005",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "PENSIONS\nMade 1st September 2005\nComing into operation in accordance with regulation 1(1)\nThe Department for Social Development, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 1(1) and 177(2), (3) and (4) of the Pension Schemes (Northern Ireland) Act 1993 and Articles 9(2) and 73(3) and (4)(a) of the Welfare Reform and Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1999, and now vested in it, and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1993 c. 49; section 1 is amended by Article 216 of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/255 (N.I. 1))"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1999/3147 (N.I. 11); Article 9(2) is amended by paragraph 68 of Schedule 10 to the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 2005"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "See Article 8(b) of S.R. 1999 No. 481"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2005/413/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:50:42.403715+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."
}