{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-sharing-pension-credit-benefit-regulations-northern-ireland-2000/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2000/146",
  "legislation_title": "The Pension Sharing (Pension Credit Benefit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-sharing-pension-credit-benefit-regulations-northern-ireland-2000",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "PENSIONS\nMade 26th April 2000\nComing into operation 1st December 2000\nThe Department for Social Development, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 64D, 97C(2), 97D(1)(b), (2)(b) and (4)(b), 97E(1)(c) and (2), 97F(2)(b) and (c), (3)(b) and (6)(b), 97H(2) and (3), 97I, 97J(2) and (4)(a), 97L, 97P(2)(b), 97Q, 177(2) to (4) and 178(1) of the Pension Schemes (Northern Ireland) Act 1993, Articles 10(2)(b) and 166(1) to (3) of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 and Articles 37(1) and (3) and 73(4) 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 64D is inserted by Article 33 of the Welfare Reform and Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/3147 (N.I. 11)) and sections 97C, 97D, 97E, 97F, 97H, 97I, 97J, 97L, 97P and 97Q are inserted by Article 34 of that Order. Section 178(1) was amended by paragraph 68 of Schedule 3 to the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/3213 (N.I. 22))"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1995/3213 (N.I. 22)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1999/3147 (N.I. 11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "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/2000/146/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:15:46.471802+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."
}