{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-schemes-northern-ireland-act-1993/section-169",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-schemes-northern-ireland-act-1993/section-169.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1993/49",
  "legislation_title": "Pension Schemes (Northern Ireland) Act 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-schemes-northern-ireland-act-1993",
  "path": "section/169",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "169",
  "heading": "Grants to advisory bodies etc.",
  "text": "(1) The Regulatory Authority may make grants on such terms and conditions as they think fit to any person providing advice or assistance, or carrying out other prescribed functions, in connection with occupational or personal pensions.\n(2) The Department may pay the Regulatory Authority such sums as the Department may think fit towards any expenditure of theirs in making grants under this section.\n(3) The Department may make grants on such terms and conditions as the Department thinks fit to any person or body of persons providing advice or assistance, or carrying out other prescribed functions, in connection with occupational or personal pensions.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 169 substituted (1.4.1997) by S.I. 1995/3213 (N.I. 22), art. 147, Sch. 3 para. 63; S.R. 1997/192, art. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 169(3) added (7.6.2012) by Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2012 (c. 3), ss. 32(2), 34(3); S.R. 2012/233, art. 2(2)(h)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 169 heading substituted (7.6.2012) by Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2012 (c. 3), ss. 32(3), 34(3); S.R. 2012/233, art. 2(2)(h)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1993/49/section/169",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:34:31.493981+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."
}