{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-sharing-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-sharing-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2016/172",
  "legislation_title": "The Pension Sharing (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-sharing-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-2016",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Pensions\nMade 16th March 2016\nComing into operation 6th April 2016\nThe Department for Social Development makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 97C(2), 97H(3), 97J(6)(a), 97L(1), 177(2) to (4) and 178(1) of the Pension Schemes (Northern Ireland) Act 1993, Articles 21(1)(a), (b)(i), (c) and (d) and (3), 24(2), 27(1), 38(1) and (2) and 73(4) of the Welfare Reform and Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1999, and now vested in it and sections 51(2), (3)(a) and (4) and 83 of the Pension Schemes Act 2015.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1993 c. 49; sections 97A to 97Q were inserted by Article 34 of the Welfare Reform and Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/3147 (N.I. 11)) and section 97J(6)(a) was amended by paragraph 11(b) of Schedule 10 to the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/255 (N.I. 1)); section 178(1) was amended by Parts 3 and 4 of Schedule 5 to the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/3213 (N.I. 22))"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1999/3147 (N.I. 11); Article 21(1) was amended by paragraph 108 of Schedule 29 to the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "See Article 8(b) of S.R. 1999 No. 481"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "2015 c. 8"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2016/172/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:57:01.255527+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."
}